printPresident Trump spoke movingly and poignantly today about comforting families waiting on the bodies of their dead boys at the Dover Air Force Base. POTUS mentioned Eisenhower’s prophetic warning against the power of the military-industrial-complex to launch and sustain wars.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2019
In 2013, I wrote about the achingly beautiful ceremonies at Dover:
Watch this ceremony at the Dover Air Force Base. Soldiers receive the coffined body of a slain comrade on its arrival in Dover. They handle it with exquisite care, hands clad in white gloves. What a stark, pathos-filled, sad ceremony, every move so tender and respectful.
Yes, “every move so tender and respectful.”
And every death so futile.