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He's home now.
Author: Raine    Date: 04/06/2009 12:28:37

From today's NYT The Lede Blog:
For the first time in 18 years, the Pentagon granted the news media access on Sunday night to cover the arrival of a coffin to Dover Air Force Base from overseas.

The coffin, draped in a flag and bearing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va, was unloaded from a government aircraft by the military honor guard. Sergeant Myers, 30, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Helmand Province in Afghanistan on April 4, according to the Defense Department.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/06/us/06cofin.4801.jpg

Per this new policy, Family consent must be given. I know that Tuesday is usually the day on this blog that we set aside for our Soldiers in Peril, but today, I would like to thank Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers for his sacrifice, and his family for allowing us to bear witness to the horrible costs of this war.

Afghanistan may be considered by some to be the 'nobler' of these two fronts we are fighting, and I would tend to agree, but in the end, war is war -- and the sacrifices our soldiers make are a great loss for our country. These are our sisters and brothers, lovers, friends, fathers, daughter, sons and mothers. This is the first coffin we have seen in 18 years, and no doubt it will not be the last.

I hope that the sacrifice Staff Sgt. Myers made on the field as well as the sacrifice his family have made by allowing us to truly and finally see the cost of war will help to bring the battle in Afghanistan and Iraq to a quicker end.

Rest in Peace.

:peace: and
Raine



 

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