Remembering & Honoring Our Fallen Soldiers.
For our brave soldiers who fought and died 10,000 miles away from home, Dover Air Force Base mortuary is waiting. And now, as their bodies are no longer hidden away, we honor our fallen. I watched on the Today Show the return of the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers Sunday night at Dover Air Force Base. An eight-member team wearing white gloves and camouflage battle fatigues carried the body of 30-year-old Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., off a military jet in a solemn ceremony on a cool, clear night. Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers was killed April 4 in Afghanistan, when he was hit with an improvised explosive device, the Department of Defense said.
John Flynn's "Dover" Big airplane, bring'em down easy.
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The Faces of 3,480 Fallen U.S. Soldiers
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Fallen Soldier Ceremony:
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He Died Today, 10,000 Miles Away:
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Returning Caskets-Iraq & Afghanistan War Soldier Memorial:
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Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
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Brothers in Arms:
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Marine Lieutenant Colonel Strobl's account of escorting the body of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. It's a long and beautifully written and it deserves to be read in it's entirety.
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Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is where the bodies of our soldiers fallen in war are returned to us.
Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins" by Dana Milbank (Washington Post)
Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.