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FULL title: If Ricketts signs bill, organizers of military funerals may find it easier to honor veterans' unclaimed remains



BILL HENRY/MISSING IN AMERICA PROJECT NEBRASKA
Military members hold urns containing veterans’ remains at an interment ceremony May 30, 2014, at Fort McPherson National Cemetery east of North Platte. Five veterans were given a military funeral, one of three organized by Nebraska’s Missing in America group.


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POSTED: SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 1:00 AM
By Natasha Rausch / World-Herald staff writer

Twenty-seven motorcyclists stood in a circle inside the Good Shepherd Funeral Home in Omaha, all sporting war veteran patches on their leather jackets.

In front of them were three urns, painted with the American flag and adorned with dog tags. Inside each urn was the cremated remains of a veteran.

The bikers were on a mission.

They were driving 288 miles to Fort McPherson near Maxwell, Nebraska — picking up 100 more bikers at seven stops along the way — to give the three deceased veterans a full military funeral and burial.

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