EXCLUSIVE: BLACK NYPD Sgt. James Bunn gets grave marker, proper burial after son left body in morgue and collected benefits

His brothers in blue and his grateful grandchildren gave NYPD Sgt. James Bunn the proper burial Thursday that his own son denied him.

At the cemetery out in New Jersey where Bunn had been buried for four years in an anonymous grave, the mourners gathered around a newly laid marker that read: James H. Bunn, September 8, 1933 — February 23, 2010.

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"It's been a long time coming today,” NYPD chaplain Msgr. Robert Romano told the 30 mourners gathered at Rosemont Memorial Cemetery. “But what we do as a police department is something we do very well, and that is to never forget. So we are gathered here today to keep that promise."

While a bagpiper squeezed out mournful tones and a cold rain started to fall, Sergeants Benevolent Association head Ed Mullins presented a folded green, blue and white NYPD flag to Bunn’s grandchildren.

"Something came to mind on the way here,” Mullins said. “An old Irish saying: Happy is the bride the sun shines on, happy is the corpse the rain falls on."

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