a member of a Military Funeral Honors Team. He has attended more than 3,400 veterans’ funerals in his nearly 30 years of service. Gass presses on because he believes in the mission of the ...

It’s a tip of the hat to them.” Boddorf and his office help families and funeral directors with military honors for veterans. Those who died in service are honored every Memorial Day.

Avery Johnson, eastern area coordinator for North Dakota Military Funeral Honors. The Honor Guard members do everything in a military funeral from carrying the casket to doing different movements.

For Rick McCormick, a veteran and “military brat” who grew up steeped in service, the idea of a veteran being laid to rest without proper military honors is unacceptable. That conviction led him to ...