PGR - Lt. Richard Cooley San Jose

From the RC:  I just arrived home from the mission to pay our respects to Lt. Richard Cooley. It has been an awesome two days with the first mission yesterday to escort the remains to the mortuary from the airport and today from the mortuary to the cemetery. Mrs. Cooley talked with us for a few minutes about her late husband. This was a very impressive man. A real fighter. He lost his right arm when he had to bail out of a P-38 in WWII. He was found badly injured on the ground by a French farmer and taken to a hospital. After the war he went back to Yale and won a championship in.....wait for it.......Squash!! One arm an with the left arm at that. He also played golf.

Took a few pics at the  mortuary, it was a short mission to the cemetery and we were waved off as the family wanted a private service.  They were very gracious and appreciated our escort very much, and it was an honor to be invited!  God Bless

Pics are top to bottom, click on a pic for a larger pic, text for a pic is under it....

I pulled up about the staging time and saw the scoots lined up at the sidewalk, and I put Gina into the line.

We were told to bring 'um into the parking lot so in we went.

Hearse at the ready.

Scoots lined up for escort 

Normal visiting before the escort.

Looks like SlickJohn was telling a big one...  GBG

I'll guess we had about a dozen scoots, pretty good for a real short notice!!!  Kirk Bertolet  was RC (Hopefully the next mayor of Morgan Hill!!!)  and did a great job.   Mike and Kirk led the hearse to the cemetery.