Veteran not alone

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

MA2 Travis Smith, MA2 Corey Hribar, and bugler BM2 Jacob Carpenter of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands are at the ready while awaiting the execution of military honors Friday during the inurnment of Kendall Burwinkle at the Kauai Veterans Cemetery in Hanapepe.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Kauai Veterans Cemetery caretakers Junior Leones and Andrea Abalos join Ed Kawamura Sr. and others as they close the inurnment service with a rendering of “Hawaii Aloha” and “Aloha Oe,” led by Kamala Mersberg, Friday at the Kauai Veterans Cemetery in Hanapepe.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

MA2 (Master-at-Arms Petty Officer 2nd Class) Travis Smith and MA2 Corey Hribar of the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands perform military honors before the remains of Kendall Burwinkle Friday during the inurnment service at Kauai Veterans Cemetery in Hanapepe.

HANAPEPE — No one should be alone, said Jim Jung on Friday morning at the Kauai Veterans Cemetery.

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