Honor our Soldiers
 

This picture really affected me. I don't know why, but for me, it was powerful.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoess.../images/02.jpg

For those instances there are never adequate words.
May God keep them and bring comfort to their families and loved ones.

No words......

Truly sad

Britt

lest we should not forget!
 

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf
--George Orwell

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
--General Robert E. Lee

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
--Ronald Reagan

Freedom can be lost in a single generation... It is my prayer that our people will always remember: FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE!
--General John A Wickham, Jr., USA

Good posts, guys.

Jack you know me, I'll bleed red, white, & blue if I get cut, but I don't think this picture is real. Under no circumstances would the honor guard be in the cargo area of a commerical aircraft, even to unload the casket. In fact, I believe only military aircraft are used to transport the fallen to their home of record. I might be wrong, but something ain't right.

I do not want to take away from the meaning of the picture, but our fallen soldiers are treated better than it represents.

I was thinking the same thing, but didn't want to spoil the mood.

The fact that everyone in the cabin is visible and so many of them are peering out had me thinking they were pasted there.

Sad to think about the loss of life though part anyway............. :(

Click on this link...

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/iraq_war_families/

and go through the pictures. You'll find it there. I don't think they're going to publish something that isn't real.

This is where I got it from...

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays...amilies/2.html

I stand corrected.

I did read on a military funeral protacol site it is up to the military (and I assume the family) when and how the casketed body leaves Dover Air Force Base and is delivery to the funeral home near the "home of record" or Arlington National Cemetary. A military escort accompaines the remains.

You would think their last flight would be 1st class. :)

(Geico trying to bring a little humor to a painfully real subject)

Rest well Marine, you have earned it.

The picture is probably real. The link below doesn't prove that it's real, but it proves (to my satisfaction anyway) that it's common practice for military escorts to use commercial airlines to return our fallen soldiers home after they are processed through the Dover AFB mortuary.

Read this account:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/0...ng_chance.html

If that doesn't choke you up nothing will.

Jack, I want to thankyou for posting this thread! That means so much to so many of us that have family in the Military.Thank you once again!!! Cin

You guys rock
 

God Bless all the troops..
Especially all those souls stuck in forgotten Afghan, and Horrible Iraq, and all the other places we arent told about.
FYI its 40 Degrees atm outside in Iraq... I just checked


Dangousity
Soldier sitting in the Sandbowl


More Power is More Fun

...A picture is worth a million words, but an infinate amout of emotions...

Ditto. Short and to the point, and very true.

I strongly suggest you guys take 10 minutes to read the link posted above by dieselnewbie.

I read it about a year ago but I thank newbie for posting it again so I could reread it.