Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson had a very close friend in his life \u2013 his dog, Hawkeye. Tumilson, a former San Diego resident, was killed August 6 in the Chinook helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of 29 other American service members.<\/p>\n
Tumilson\u2019s funeral was in Rockford, Iowa at Rockford Senior High. Hawkeye was among the 1,500 mourners who attended. As you can see by the heart-wrenching photo above, Hawkeye refused to leave his master\u2019s side during the service.<\/p>\n
The picture was taken by Lisa Pembleton, Tumilson\u2019s cousin. Pembleton contacted Home Post with this message:<\/p>\n
Hawkeye was his loyal \u201cson\u201d. To say that he was an amazing man doesn\u2019t do him justice. The loss of Jon to his family, military family and friends is immeasurable. I did not plan on taking any pictures other than with family. However, from my seat at the funeral, I felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn\u2019t make it or couldn\u2019t see what I could from the aisle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson had a very close friend in his life \u2013 his dog, Hawkeye. Tumilson, a former San Diego resident, was killed August 6 in the Chinook helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of 29 other American service members. Tumilson\u2019s funeral was in Rockford, Iowa at Rockford Senior High. Hawkeye was among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}