By Katherine Hafner
The Virginian-Pilot
A photo of a Virginia state trooper who stopped traffic on Interstate 64 to salute a funeral procession for a fallen Virginia Beach sheriff’s deputy has garnered more than 12,500 Facebook shares.
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Julie Armstrong of Chesapeake on Tuesday afternoon.
The funeral was for Joseph “J.J.” DellaVecchio Jr., a longtime member of the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office and former state trooper who died last week, according to reports.
“What a terrific salute to a fallen officer,” Armstrong said in her post.
By Thursday evening, the post had 12,585 shares.
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