ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A touching ceremony was held Friday at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery for a man who never met the people who attended.
“A marine should have been buried at Jefferson Barracks,” Marc Lahay said.
Lahay found the cremated remains of a man and his wife inside an empty home he was hired to clean out. He later found out the remains belonged to a Korean War veteran who died in 2012.
“I wasn’t going to throw them away in the trash,” Lahay said.
The names were not released, but he made sure the veteran got a proper military funeral. Lahay’s son is an active-duty marine and accepted the flag for his fellow marine at the ceremony.
“It’s just the right thing to do. That’s all it comes down to—it’s just the right thing to do,” he said.