Unclaimed veterans buried with dignity, thanks to strangers
By ADRIAN SAINZ and KAREN PULFER FOCHT, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — When the flags were removed from the caskets and folded with military precision, there were no family members there to receive them. So, the banners were passed, hand-to-hand, through the crowd. Some mourners wept as they clutched the flags briefly. Others kissed them. But the three veterans laid to rest on a rainy Memphis