Politics & Government
Funeral Guard Conducting 100,000th Service at Jefferson Barracks
The service will be held today at 1 p.m. at Jefferson Barracks Cemetery
Founded in July 1999, the Missouri National Guard Funeral Honors program will conduct its 100,000th funeral service Tuesday afternoon at Jefferson Barracks Cemetery.
They will honor Sgt. Anthony Terrell Deal, of St. Louis, for his four years in the Army National Guard. Deal, who was born July 30, 1975, served as a chemical operations specialist and was deployed to Kosovo in 2008. He was also a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq.
Deal died of a brain tumor Aug. 8. His awards include the Bronze Star, the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Kosovo Campaign Medal and the Army Good Conduct Medal.
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The National Guard Funeral Honors program "provides military funeral honor teams from all branches of the military for veterans and active-duty military personnel," according to a release from the Guard.
“It is a milestone for our program to have provided professional military funeral honors for 100,000 veterans and military personnel,” said Sgt. Major Bruce Jolliff, a funeral honors Alpha Team leader.
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