A light breeze glides through the trees above a sea of American flags, gentle echoes embrace the countless sacrifices on sacred ground where thousands of war heroes lie.
A peaceful place where another soldier will soon join them.
"The military is a brotherhood a comradeship," said Dennis Worley of his father Ollie Eugene Worley. "I think he would be honored to be with his brothers of arms."
"My father was of that generation where he really talk about it much, what happened, when it happened or anything like that so he would just say that he was in the war," said Worley, as he recalled his father's service in WWII.
As a child, Dennis wanted to be just like his father. Worley is now a retired Army Command Sergeant Major.
He was was overseas when his dad passed away nearly two decades ago. He thought his father's cremated remains were in the safe keeping of other family members, until the phone rang last week.
"He started telling me things about my father's ashes being found at the VFW, I'm sorry but this day and age we are in, you get a phone call telling you these strange things and you wonder what the bottom line is," he said.
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But the caller was telling the truth. Someone anonymously left his father's urn at VFW Post in Hurst.
"I was very sad that things had come to this point that his ashes were unclaimed, not with a family member," Worley said. "I was happy to where it transpired we were all going to be able to come back and unite with him."
Worley said it's something his father would have always wanted.
"I don't really believe in coincidences, it's just things happen and usually it's for the best," he said.
Even after all this time apart, Worley says one thing remains true, "I think he would be smiling and happy we got everyone together and reunited," he said.
Ollie Eugene Worley will be laid to rest at the DFW National Cemetery at 1 p.m. Monday. The entire service was arranged by VFW Post #4695.
