Taking Chance
I just watched a moving film about a fallen Marine who died in Iraq.
Upon his return to the States, a Marine Colonel volunteered to take him home, to his final resting place. The Colonel never let the casket out of his sight. He saw Chance loaded onto the hearse and then into the cargo area of the airport. He supervised the loading onto the first flight, and then spent the night with the casket in a Minneapolis airport holding facility. The following day he saw that the body was properly loaded on the connecting flight, off of that flight and into the receiving hearse.
The Colonel made sure that every honor and dignity was shown to his fellow Marine, and stood with him until he was finally placed in the ground.
This was the ultimate in respect and security due the most precious asset we can conceive of.
Watching this film is worth every bit of the seventy minutes of your time.