Norbert Otto Schmidt, a retired Army colonel who died in August, was honored at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday with a burial service befitting a decorated veteran of the Korean War.

The ceremony featured all the Army's Old Guard solemn pomp: a tri-folded U.S. flag, a horse-drawn caisson, rifle volleys and a bugler sounding taps.

The only thing missing was the brass urn containing the ashes of the deceased. The urn, stolen Thursday from a van parked near the Mall, hasn't been found. So Schmidt's family went ahead with the Arlington service without their loved one's remains -- a burial service without a burial.

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