Bringing A Hero Home

From George Will:

"The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know."

- Maj. Steve Beck, U.S. Marine Corps

Sometimes Beck would linger in his vehicle in front of an American home, like that of the parents of Lance Cpl. Kyle Burns in Laramie, Wyo. Beck knew that, as Jim Sheeler writes, every second he waited "was one more tick of his wristwatch that, for the family inside the house, everything remained the same."

Beck - now Lt. Col. Beck - was a CACO, a casualty assistance calls officer whose duty was to inform a spouse or parents that their Marine had been killed.

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Prairie Pundit's remarks on George Will's commentarys hit it on the nose.