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WWII Osage Veteran Buried in B-29 Piston


Subdeacon Joe

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http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S3089857.shtml?cat=10218

 


Bud was the B-29 Crew Chief in World War II. His gravestone is etched with a B-29 and the words "Flying For Freedom."



His urn was donated by the Confederate Air force.



"They have the only flying B-29 in the world and it ended up they
donated a piston from the B2-9 Fifi to be used as my dad's urn," said
Bud's son David Lonergan who currently lives in Arizona.



To honor their father in this unique way, Bud's family came all the way to Osage from three different states.

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Umm... cylinder?

 

Pretty cool.

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Umm... cylinder?

 

Pretty cool.

 

I had the same thought, but I bet the pistons for those big radial engines have plenty of space in them for the cremains.

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It's some kind of cylinder urn topped with a Piston from a B-29. Has a handle running through where the Pin would have been. The Piston had some engraving on it.

 

Jake

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