NYPD Officer shows Marine final respects

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

Via Ms. U we get a heartwarming tale of an NYPD officer adopting an aged Marine and making sure he didn't spend his last days and eternity alone.

This is such a refreshing piece, shared with me by a close friend (a Marine), and I think you should know about it, too. From the NY Daily News, by Dennis Hamill:

Sometimes when old Marines die they do fade away into unmarked graves in Potter’s Field.

Such might have been the case for Gaspar Musso, USMC 925050, who fought in the Battle of Tinian in the Marianas Islands in 1944 and who died Nov. 15 at age 84 in a Brooklyn nursing home.

Enter Police Officer Susan Porcello, a PBA delegate at the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge and one of those big-hearted New Yorkers who still make this the best city on Earth.

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NYPD Officer shows Marine final respects

Via Ms. U we get a heartwarming tale of an NYPD officer adopting an aged Marine and making sure he didn't spend his last days and eternity alone.

This is such a refreshing piece, shared with me by a close friend (a Marine), and I think you should know about it, too. From the NY Daily News, by Dennis Hamill:

Sometimes when old Marines die they do fade away into unmarked graves in Potter’s Field.

Such might have been the case for Gaspar Musso, USMC 925050, who fought in the Battle of Tinian in the Marianas Islands in 1944 and who died Nov. 15 at age 84 in a Brooklyn nursing home.

Enter Police Officer Susan Porcello, a PBA delegate at the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge and one of those big-hearted New Yorkers who still make this the best city on Earth.

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