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Crying, Antonio’s friends planted flowers on his grave before bursting colourful balloons over it, a reminder that he was just a child.

To make the tradition more environmentally friendly, this year the tree is travelling to the capital by electric truck and a new tree has been planted in Oslo, to replace it.

Now 75 years old, the Muscogee elder and veteran says his family brought Indian peach seeds and planted them when they were done walking The Trail.

He had been one of more than 100 officers deployed to cover the repatriation of IRA man James McDade, who died the previous week when a bomb he planted in Coventry detonated.

Trees currently tend to be planted in conditions that were not easy for them to grow in, Croeser said.