Thousands attend funeral for ‘unaccompanied’ veteran in Texas

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Thousands of people attended a funeral for veteran Joseph Walker in Killeen, Texas, on Monday — despite the fact that cemetery staff did not even expect family members to attend.

Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery said last week that Walker would receive a full military burial, but that no family had come forward since Walker’s death in November and that he was an “unaccompanied veteran.”

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