Bands of warriors: U.S. Marines prepare to transfer the flag-draped casket carrying Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, 22,
from a hearse to a wagon last Saturday on the road leading to Kyle, S.D.
“He earns the American flag from his government,” says Vietnam veteran John Around Him.
“He earns the eagle feather from his people.”
Funeral procession: Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation carry handmade quilts
behind the casket of Marine Cpl. Brett Lundstrom as they make their way to
Little Wound High School for a 42-hour wake. Lundstrom enlisted in the Marines in
January 2003. “Not only did he volunteer as a Marine, he volunteered to be infantry,
” says his father, Ed Lundstrom.
Marine Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, who was killed in Iraq on January 7, 2006, into Little Wound School in
Kyle, South Dakota, on January 14, 2006. Wake services were held for the next three days at the
school. Lakota traveled from throughout the area to pay their respects to the 21 year old Marine.
Home of the Mustangs: The body of Marine Cpl. Brett Lundstrom, who was killed by
small-arms fire Jan. 7 in Fallujah, lies in state in a flag-draped casket inside a 30-foot tepee
set up in the gymnasium of Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
U.S. Marines took shifts standing guard at the entrance. |
