VIDEO: Choir breaks out in song on plane carrying remains of fallen soldier

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
ATLANTA -- It was an amazing show of respect for a Houston soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice, and it was captured on video.
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The video above was posted to Facebook by Diane Cupp, who was on a flight from Germany to Atlanta. When they landed, Diane says the pilot announced that a soldier on board would exit the plane first. That soldier was escorting the remains of a World War II soldier back home to Houston.

As that soldier got up to leave, Diane says a group of young people began to sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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Listen and see if it touches you as much as it did us.

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