The following is a post by Steve Harrigan of the Fox News Channel who is embedded with our Soldiers.
February 6, 200636:31 minutes
A memorial service today for a soldier killed in action. The entire regiment attended. Empty boots and helmet. His friends and officers spoke about him. There is a part of the ceremony that I had not seen before that caught me by surprise and caught Rudden by surprise also. The company commander began to call roll, the first two soldiers responded to their names, then the commander called the name of the fallen soldier. I looked to the boots. There was no response. Now the name was called again, urgently, with the first name included. It hung in the silence. Then it was called a third time, with the middle initial, and a sense of finality, and it hit everyone there.
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1 comment:
That's hard, especially having to stand at attention the whole time while this is going on. There are other parts of the funeral that really get to me are taps being played and the 21 gun salute at the grave site. My condolences to all the soldiers in his platoon.
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