An honor guard in their military best lines up and faces Sgt. Jackson E. McGill’s family. They aim three rifles to the sunny sky above Maplewood Cemetery in Anderson, Indiana, and take three coordinated shots. A bugler sends out the familiar notes of “Taps.”
But this graveside ceremony wasn’t somber.
On what would’ve been Jackson McGill’s 100th birthday, family and friends gathered at the cemetery to celebrate a missing piece of history, finally recovered.
