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- By david walter
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I commanded the Honor Guard Flight at Pope in the late 1980s when a C-130 crashed during a CAPEX performing a LAPES of a HUMWV. The aircraft split in half, all hands lost.
One of the crew was a personal friend, and I escorted the Wing Commander to hand the flag to his widow at the funeral.
I was in for almost 42 years end to end. Enlisted, officer, served all over the world, jumped out of planes, did the Arctic survival thing, commanded in Iraq.
Those two minutes of presenting the flag, walking towards her as she kept shaking her head and seeing in her eyes, "please don't come here with that" and hearing the old man bend over and whisper to her "On behalf of the President of the United States, and a grateful nation, I humbly present you with this flag," giving the final salute at his casket and marching away were the hardest thing I've ever done.
One of the crew was a personal friend, and I escorted the Wing Commander to hand the flag to his widow at the funeral.
I was in for almost 42 years end to end. Enlisted, officer, served all over the world, jumped out of planes, did the Arctic survival thing, commanded in Iraq.
Those two minutes of presenting the flag, walking towards her as she kept shaking her head and seeing in her eyes, "please don't come here with that" and hearing the old man bend over and whisper to her "On behalf of the President of the United States, and a grateful nation, I humbly present you with this flag," giving the final salute at his casket and marching away were the hardest thing I've ever done.
See "Taking Chance" Very Honest movie...
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