I just read Top Comments: West Wing meets IGTNT. The video is about a homeless veteran who is buried with the respect he hadn't received in life. I cried when I read it, thinking of my sister Gerry. Many people loved her, but she had no champion, no honor guard to see her off.
In April of 1991, Gerry was buried in Arlington Cemetery on a technicality relating to her husband's Army reserve status.
Nobody told me. I wasn't there, and as far as I know, neither was anybody else. Years later, I found out Gerry was here, about 20 miles south of my house.
I visited her grave in 2002. Here's a picture of her headstone and what you could see from there. She's in the flight path of the plane that hit the Pentagon.
I'm not sure why I'm posting this. After all, Gerry had a moving memorial service in Indianapolis, where her children and grandchildren live. Her ashes were scattered in two streams she drove over a thousand times, one in each place she called home.
Toby's actions in the West Wing episode moved me to tears and probably other Kossacks too. Maybe there are more stories that need to be told.