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- It was 2017 when Tony Gonsor, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran and Custer resident, took charge of the community’s veterans honor guard, presenting military honors at funerals and on holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
It was 2017 when Tony Gonsor, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran and Custer resident, took charge of the community’s veterans honor guard, presenting military honors at funerals and on holidays such
It takes 14 volunteers to pull off each ceremony, with color guard, firing squad, bugler, officer of the day and commander
Finding people to participate in honor guard ceremonies is getting more difficult as the veteran population has dropped nearly 20% since 2010.
In early September 1890, according to the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, a man who called himself Porter arrived in Sedalia. The 35-year-old man was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and had square shoulders, auburn hair and a heavy mustache. He wore cowboy boots and told people he was a mule buyer from LaJora, Colorado. He wore a Grand Army of the Republic badge, meaning that he was a veteran of the Civil War, and was from Custer Post, No. 2, in Saguachi, Colorado.