Man who died escorting veterans' remains will get escort of his own

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Bill Henry was the co-founder and coordinator of the Nebraska chapter of the Missing in America Project, which seeks out unclaimed remains from funeral homes and returns them to family members or arranges for burial in military cemeteries.


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POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 12:30 AM
By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer

A motorcycle-riding Army veteran from Papillion who died ensuring that other veterans receive a decent burial ceremony will get his own rousing send-off on Saturday.

Dozens of Omaha-area veterans on motorcycles will converge at Iowa’s Freedom Rock at 11 a.m. Saturday to escort Bill Henry’s cremated remains home to Nebraska.

Henry, 69, died Sept. 14 of head injuries suffered two weeks earlier in a motorcycle crash in Manassas, Virginia, while he and hundreds of other bikers were escorting the remains of six West Coast veterans to Arlington National Cemetery for burial.

Henry was the co-founder and coordinator of the Nebraska chapter of the Missing in America Project, which seeks out unclaimed remains from funeral homes and returns them to family members or arranges for burial in military cemeteries.

FULL story and this at link. There was nothing Bill Henry wouldn't do for a veteran