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I guess we could strap them into the seats in first class.

Come on now - how about just a flag over the box. Is that too much to ask for someone who gave his or her life for their country?

I think the difference is that the coffins arrive at Dover AFB in the military flight and you have the flags, etc. for that moment.

But when the bodies are transferred to the domestic locations for burial, they receive the same care that the transfer of any human remains receive from the commercial airlines. You're not going to see baggage handlers performing a military ceremony while unloading commercial cargo, nor is the family expected to be out there on the tarmac watching the plane being unloaded.

Come on now - how about just a flag over the box. Is that too much to ask for someone who gave his or her life for their country?

It's not on display, it's not being received, it's simply being transferred to its next destination. Do you expect an honor band at every stop if there's a forklift nearby to see it?

This is not a display of disrespect. It's shipping. It's also yet another MSM story written simply to try to discredit our military. (They can't do anything right, they don't honor their dead, etc. Divide the Right and conquer, as always.)

When it is appropriate, when they are being receieved or seen on a public tarmac, I feel sure that they will receive the honors they are due.

What doesn't sit well with me is the notion that the media is trying to allege that they are more concerned with honoring the fallen than their brethren in arms who are responsible for such procedures. I guaran-dang-tee you that those in uniform do not shirk that particular responsibility.