Posted on 04/06/2009 10:52:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The wind can whip cold across the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, freezing fingers that hold the flag-draped metal transfer case in which lie the remains of a fellow service member. You do not loosen your grip. You do not shuffle your feet. You do not grimace.
If you have to yawn, you do it through your nose. You swallow your coughs and sneezes, let itches go unscratched. Keep your mouth closed, eyes straight and the blinking to an absolute minimum.
Those are the rules.
Those are the rules when it's 4 a.m. and it's dark and there's no one around.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Of course let’s remember when the arrivals at Dover were last allowed to be televised...
The media showed the coffins arriving in a split screen with President George H.W. Bush during the first Gulf War with the malicious intent of undermining his support.
Of course, that will never happen under the current administration. The MSM would never want to undercut the ONE.
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