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Everybody has worth’: High school kids serve as pallbearers for homeless veterans

 

The Pallbearer Ministry at the school began after six seniors volunteered to help bury three unclaimed veterans in October, 2015. Since then, volunteers have helped carry veterans in ceremonies at Great Lakes National Cemetery and others cemeteries around the Detroit area. "This was an opportunity to give something to somebody who finished their life on the fringe of society," Tom Lennon, a former student. "These veterans were men I had never met, but they helped make the country I live in safer and stronger. No matter who they were or what they did on earth, every person deserves a proper burial."

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