Dont know if this belongs here. But did you guys see this
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4487783/too-busy-for-fallen-soldiers-family
Makes me rather sick.

What do you expect? In the end, it is up to the warriors to care for each other and their families. Politicians will never care unless it get s them a vote or three.

I spent some time as a casualty assistance officer a few decades ago. (The most difficult job I ever have had.)

In the end, the families just want to know that their son/daughter/husband/wife/father/mother will not be forgotten. The part that I wish I had done more of was staying in contact after the dress blues and tennis shoes funerals and getting all the survivor paper work done. But I was young and did not understand what I understand now.

I hope that the casualty assistance officers now are given some training so that they are better equipped to do their jobs than we were.

Semper Fi,
Dave