Tufts recognizes importance of burial details

February 14, 2013

Pictured at right, George R. Tufts, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.), was the guest speaker at Saturday’s annual banquet of the St. Marys Servicemen’s Burial Detail. At left is Mike Bauer, recently inducted president of the detail. Photo by Victoria Stanish.

The guest speaker at Saturday’s annual banquet of the St. Marys Servicemen’s Burial Detail was George R. Tufts, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.), who served during the Cuban Missile Crisis and in Vietnam and retired from the military in 1974.