You would have to have a very cold heart not to be touched by General Kelly's description of how the families of deceased military personnel are notified. Read his speech at Gen. John F. Kelly’s Remarkable Words to the Press Corps and America. Here's a portion of the transcript where he talks about family notification:
So that’s the process. While that’s happening, a casualty officer typically goes to the home very early in the morning and waits for the first lights to come on. And then he knocks on the door; typically a mom and dad will answer, a wife. And if there is a wife, this is happening in two different places; if the parents are divorced, three different places. And the casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family member and stays with that family until — well, for a long, long time, even after the internment. So that’s what happens.
Wow.
For someone with a family member in the military, spotting a government vehicle parked outside in the early morning hours would have to send a chill through the heart. Once a light goes on in the house someone will ring the door bell to deliver bad news.
The lesson here is if you have a family member in the military and there's a government vehicle parked outside in the early morning, do not turn on the light!
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4:02 PM 10/20/2017
Addendum: Wait a sec. Benghazi is a thing now? Fredrica Wilson was shown on Fox news saying the Niger ambush of American service men was "Trump's Benghazi." We were told hundreds of time that there was nothing to see there. Hillary Clinton famously exclaimed, "What difference, at this time, does is make?" Wilson made a gaff. She inadvertently admitted that there was something there. Oops.
Editor's note: Better late than never, huh? Robo-ed.
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