Service members give two unclaimed veterans military burial Wendi Lane and last updated 2021-03-05 21:35:56-05 SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. â On Friday, fellow service members laid to rest two veterans whose bodies were never claimed. Tom Mulkey was a U.S. Army captain and served as an paratrooper during the Vietnam War. The Special Forces veteran passed away in 2003 and his cremated remains were recently found in an abandoned U-Haul shed inside of an oatmeal container. âFor me, itâs pretty emotional, for any soldier but especially a brother of the regimen,â said Gerald DeMarzo of Special Forces brotherhood MC MacDill chapter president.