Obama honors fallen soldiers
October 29 – Appreciating the forfeits made, President Barack Obama flew to Dover Air Force Base to render his honor to the return of fallen American soldiers owed by war.
Obama arrived by Marine One helicopter to Dover Air force Base to saw the real price of war in Afghanistan caused to 18 soldiers who were killed this last week of the month that turned October as the most deadly month for U.S troops since the war started.
At least 55 U.S. forces have been killed in October. That’s the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban.
This portrait made by Obama was compared to his predecessor Former President George W. Bush image. Unlike Obama, Bush visited the families of hundred of fallen soldiers but didn’t visited any military funerals to receive a coffins. Bush said it was the best way of showing respect to soldiers who rest in peace.
For all the talk of his potential troop of 40,000, Obama got a grim reminder of one, Dale R. Griffin, an Army sergeant from Terre Haute, Ind. He was the last fallen soldier to come before Obama. And his remains were the only ones to be honored in full view of the media with the permission of his family. A ban on such coverage was lifted this year under Obama’s watch.
An Air Force C-17 cargo plane arrived at Dover after midnight carrying the bodies of 18 fallen personnel from Afghanistan, including the 10 Americans killed Monday and the eight soldiers the next day. The official party receiving the coffins included Attorney General Eric Holder; DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart; Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff; Brig. Gen. Michael Repass, commander of the Army Special Forces; Maj. Gen. Daniel Wright, the Army assistant judge advocate; and Col. Robert Edmondson of the Air Force Mortuary Operations Center.
The military calls this process as a dignified transfer, not a ceremony, because there is nothing to celebrate. The cases are not labeled coffins, although they come off looking that way, enveloped in flags.
via foxnews.com
