1st Lt. Joseph Theinert buried on Shelter Island
Photo credit: Ed Betz | The coffin is carried in at the funeral Friday for 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert in Shelter Island. (June 11, 2010)
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Under a clear sky that only moments earlier had triumphed over somber clouds, the body of 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert was laid to rest in a cemetery on his native Shelter Island.
His funeral, a Mass of Christian Burial held under a huge tent on the grounds of the Shelter Island public school he attended from kindergarten through high school, brought this bucolic island of 2,500 people to a halt....
