Honoring

After Four Long Bloody Years

Submitted by jimstaro on April 6, 2007 - 6:12pm.

Why do we Not Honor our Fallen?

‘That’s not going to happen with my son’

Honor guards replace forklifts for fallen troops after father takes up cause

In an about-face by the U.S. government four years into the war in Iraq, America's fallen troops are being brought back to their families aboard charter jets instead of ordinary commercial flights, and the caskets are being met by honor guards in white gloves instead of baggage handlers with forklifts.

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