Hundreds of strangers gather to honor veteran who died alone

NORTH HANOVER, N.J. – A veteran from Atco, New Jersey with no known family died alone, but he was neither forgotten nor alone Friday.

Roughly 1,000 caring strangers gathered for Peter Turnpu's funeral at the Brigadier Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in North Hanover.

Groups of veterans, government officials and others from South Jersey attended to show their appreciation for Turnpu's service to the country during the Vietnam War era and to ensure he wasn't buried as a forgotten former soldier.

One of those strangers is the director of LeRoy P. Wooster Funeral Home and Crematory in Atco, who not only volunteered to handle the funeral but arranged for Turnpu to be buried with military honors at the state cemetery and put out a call to the public to remember him.

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It always annoys me when people come out and say how sorry they are after the fact. Where these people when he was alive?