CG Provides Viking Burial at Sea

WORLD WAR II VETERAN LAID TO REST BY USCG IN UNUSUAL CEREMONY

 A handmade wooden boat containing Haines' ashes burns during a burial at sea Sept. 29. ( Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cynthia Oldham / Coast Guard )On Sept. 29, Coast Guard Station Atlantic City fulfilled the final wishes of World War II   Military  veteran Andrew Haines, a New Jersey resident who died in late August at age
  89. Haines personally spent more than a decade planning his own Norse-style send-off — a self-built funeral ship to carry his cremated ashes, which was then to be ignited with a flare.Haines built five versions of the ship, eventually settling on a 54-inch version for the ceremony.The full story and addition photos may be found in the Navy Times
http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141002/NEWS03/310020066/Coast-Guard-gives-WWII-vet-Viking-funeral-sea?sf31939161=1

 

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