No excuse can justify what they did. Where is/was the NCO Leadership?
Via FOX11
Funeral photo furor over a picture was taken in front of an empty casket at a training session for soldiers.
It involves a member of the Wisconsin National Guard’s Honor Guard. The photo is causing outrage on social media and it is drawing mixed reactions from some local veterans.
As they do at the funeral for any fallen soldier, members of Appleton’s American Legion and VFW posts are there to honor that service member.
“We did one yesterday in Mackville in the middle of that snowstorm outside, it was cold. We do them in below zero weather, when it’s hot, raining, snowing, we don’t care,” said Appleton American Legion Post 38 member Ray Gass.
Gass has been a part of the American Legion’s funeral honor guard for years. And he says this picture posted by a member of the Wisconsin National Guard is disgraceful. The photo posted by Specialist Terry Harrison, a Guard member based in Madison, shows a group of soldiers in light-hearted poses while gathered around an empty flag-draped casket at a training center in Arkansas.