About The Honoring Guard
Our Honor Guard was started as a result of performing at funerals for our fellow veterans.
Below is a slide show of Honor Guard members at the 2022 Memorial Day Event in the American Legion Park Dedication, Missouri City Texas on May. 30, 2022..
The following document.explains the reason for the flag draped coffin:
Meaning of Flag Drapped Coffin.pdf
The following document should be handed to the family member at the funeral of the deceased veteran along with the folded flag:
Honoring Our Post Members That Have Passed Away
In loving memory of our deceased members:
Past Post Commanders: William ( Tony ) Workman Jack Williams
- Dick Cleveland
- Earl Snyder
- Harold Turner
- Leroy Bash
- Guthrie Moore
- Ed Cagney
- Logan Martin
- Jim Duncan
- James Duncan
- Charles J. Williams
- Herman Gillman
- Charlie Fertitta
- Joe Romano
- Frank Contreres
- Ed Gibbons
- Jerry Riddle
- Frank Reyes
- Richard Morris
- Ronald Martin
- Chester Frank
- Erle Gooding
- Donald Johnson
- Larry Massey
- Paul Moyer
Tom Gaussiran
Joe Bowden
To my dearest friends,
“He was getting old and paunchy,
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.
And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.
He won’t be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.
When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.
Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Someone who breaks his promise
And deceives his fellow man?
Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.
But we’ll hear his tales no longer,
For our member has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer
For a Veteran died today.
He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won’t note his passing, ‘Tho a Veteran died today.
Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young,
But the passing of a Veteran
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?”