Tag: Dover Air Force Base

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – November 2009

April 5, 2009 Dover ‘Old Guard’



Dover ‘Old Guard’ team shoulders heavy burden

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – October 2009

April 5, 2009 Dover ‘Old Guard’



Dover ‘Old Guard’ team shoulders heavy burden

President Honors Fallen at Dover Arrival

Earlier this morning:

Obama visits Dover AFB to honor fallen soldiers

President Barack Obama, right, salutes as an Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama made a midnight dash to this air base Wednesday to honor the return of fallen soldiers, absorbing the ultimate cost of war as the United States endures its deadliest month of the Afghanistan campaign.

On a clear fall night, Obama flew by Marine One helicopter to Dover Air Force Base to greet the flag-draped cases of 18 Americans killed in action this week…>>>Rest Found Here

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – September 2009

Dover ‘Old Guard’



Dover ‘Old Guard’ team shoulders heavy burden

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – August 2009

Dover ‘Old Guard’



Dover ‘Old Guard’ team shoulders heavy burden

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – July 2009

Dover ‘Old Guard’



Dover ‘Old Guard’ team shoulders heavy burden

You Do Not Need to Know His Name

You do not need to know his name to understand the enormity of what he is a part of, yet it is important that you do. You do not need to know that he died in Afghanistan, yet that point is not incidental to the existence of the flag-draped box left on the platform.

The coffin of Staff Sergeant Phillip Myers sits on the plane gangway at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware.

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SSgt. Myers’ family gave permission for publication of this photo and it is the first published under the removal of the ban on photographs of coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan as they arrive at Dover Airforce Base.

For analysis of the photos and further discussion, see BAGnewsNotes.