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Devoted Dog guards Navy SEAL's Coffin at Funeral
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Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, attended by 1,500 family members, friends--and Hawkeye, Tumilson's dog.
When Tumilson's friend Scott Nichols walked to the front of the room to speak, Hawkeye followed, Today.com reports. "As Nichols prepared to memorialize his friend, Hawkeye dutifully laid down near the casket,"
Tumilson loved his dog Hawkeye so much, he called the Labrador retriever his son. At Tumilson's funeral, that deep bond was forever captured in a photograph in which Hawkeye lay at the foot of his master's casket through the ceremony.
The image of this loyal dog spoke volumes about 35-year-old Petty Officer Tumilson. The dog is now being cared for by one of his friends.
Tumilson's cousin, Lisa Pembleton took the picture. She said it was in her view throughout the funeral and she couldn't pass up not taking the photo, so she did when her tears stopped long enough for her to focus.
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@ this being the first sentence after the OP.