No next of kin found but people line up out the door of the funeral home to remember Vietnam vet

Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

It was a cold and windy day here in the Chicago area. But people lined up outside the door a northwest suburban Chicago funeral home to honor a Vietnam veteran who died last month.

His family couldn't be located.

But then there was a second family.

From NBC Chicago:

Symonds-Madison Funeral Home in Elgin had put out a call for people to attend the services for Vietnam war veteran John James Murphy because his family couldn't be found.

But he was buried with another family by his side.

"It’s a sad thing when a man like that finds himself in a situation where he’s got nobody. But then he has all of us. We’re all brothers in being veterans," said Vietnam veteran Barron Buchunas, who attended the services.

Murphy, 71, passed away on Dec. 18, an obituary on the funeral home's website read.

A procession then brought Murphy to his final resting place at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood near Joliet.

What a moving story, this one is. God bless our veterans.