New York State Funeral Directors Association
It’s not uncommon for people to attend funerals for friends and family who don’t share the same religious beliefs – or who don’t have any religion at all.
What if the deceased is religious, but you don’t know how to pray for them?
You can still make sure prayers that individual would appreciate will be voiced.
You were their hope for the future.
For your elders, your birth represented things they wished would happen but that they’d never know.
It was a joy for them to see you come into the world but for you, as in the new book “Ladysitting” by Lorene Cary, it’s harder to see them go.
A three-volley rifle salute, the playing of taps, and the presentation of an American flag to the next-of-kin or family representative: these rituals are customarily performed at the funeral services of nearly every American veteran as a symbol of their faithful and dedicated service.
Saturday, those honors were rendered for the first time over the grave of Pvt. James Robinson, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 decorated by the Marquis de Lafayette at the Battle of Yorktown.
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