By M. Scott Morris Daily Journal FULTON – A deceased World War II veteran will receive a patriot’s escort through north Mississippi on Sunday. The strange last days of Pvt. Robert D. Brooks have garnered national media attention. On March 5, the 89-year-old’s body was discovered in a suitcase in a field in Prairie County, Arkansas. An autopsy revealed he died of natural causes, but two people were taken into custody for crimes committed while taking his body from Johnstown, New York, to Arkansas. It took about three weeks to work out the details so Patriot Guard Riders on motorcycles could take Brooks’ cremated remains from Little Rock to his final resting place, a cemetery near Columbia, South Carolina. “We are working to give him recognition and show appreciation for his service,” said Don McKibben, state captain of the Patriot Guard Riders of Mississippi. Brooks enlisted in the U.S.