EUGENE, Ore. - Major Thomas Egan didn't have a home. He didn't have any family. But he sure touched a lot of people. Nearly 100 people showed up to pay their respects to a him, a man who friends call a stubborn Irishman, a crazy troublemaker and an eternal jokester.

Chaplain John Dinsmore recalled a time they were looking at a map together.

"There would be an area that was called the 'dud area' and he'd say well they've got a pizzeria, this should be called a duderia," said Dinsmore.

Kate Saunders went to college with Egan in Connecticut. She said Egan was intellectual, earning a Masters Degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. But Saunders said that intellect wasn't enough to overcome addiction to alcohol.

"He was really smart just not a very wise man," said Saunders.

For fellow veterans, Egan's life and death on the streets hit too close to home.

"I think that's what's so emotionally wrenching for us all," said Dinsmore.

After the stories, they said their final goodbyes, in the most appropriate way possible, with full military honors.