#military-honors

#military-honors

Katelyn Tully, 32, began her career in law enforcement at the Haverhill Police Department, and served on both the Police and Military Honor Guards, the obituary says. Tully, a decorated army veteran who served in Afghanistan for six months, will be buried with military honors. In the obituary, the Haverhill Police Department described Tully as "a dedicated officer whose presence left a lasting impact on everyone she served beside."

Now, the West Point Association of Graduates has canceled the ceremony to honor the actor just weeks before it was to take place, the Washington Post reported. Tom Hanks pays tribute to Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell In an email to faculty, retired Col Mark Bieger stated that the decision would allow the academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight and win as officers in the world's most lethal force, the United States Army.

"When it's all done and Dad lists the things he wants to be remembered for ... his first first thing would be that he's a man of faith," she told the Beatrice Daily Sun, a southeast Nebraska newspaper that first reported McPherson died on Aug. 14. "It hasn't been till these later years in his life that he's had so many honors and medals," she said.