American military funerals and flags
I've looked on wikipedia's pages about military funerals and fneral honours, googled the same, and looked at things like the Veterans' Association details, but none of them tell me this:
Say the ex-military father of someone in the military had died, but was estranged from his child who therefore didn't know about the death in time to make the arrangements. Instead, a friend of the father arranged for military honours at the funeral (they're both well connected in order to do this).
Would it be plausible for someone, during the course of setting this up, to find out that the dead man is related to someone still in the military and thus pass the message on (assuming the person setting it up didn't know the son personally?)
Also, if there was no family at the service, would the flag still be presented, and if so, to whom? Like, the friend who set it up, for example, or could they specify someone?
Thank you!
Say the ex-military father of someone in the military had died, but was estranged from his child who therefore didn't know about the death in time to make the arrangements. Instead, a friend of the father arranged for military honours at the funeral (they're both well connected in order to do this).
Would it be plausible for someone, during the course of setting this up, to find out that the dead man is related to someone still in the military and thus pass the message on (assuming the person setting it up didn't know the son personally?)
Also, if there was no family at the service, would the flag still be presented, and if so, to whom? Like, the friend who set it up, for example, or could they specify someone?
Thank you!