Posted: 2/24/2009 8:06:36 AM EDT
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Watching the HBO original movie "Taking Chance"
This is a Docudrama about a Marine Lt Colonel who is escorting PFC Chance Phelps home. At 30 Minutes in I was seriously weepy eyed, too much dust in here I think. It is getting worse too. Watch it if you get the opportunity. Seriously. |
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Kevin Bacon plays a marine LTC who volunteers to escort the remains because the deceases was listed as being form his hometown. The story covers his journey from Dover, DE where, apparently service members remains are processed to the funeral in Montana. Very moving. I was most impressed with the dignity and honor with which the fallen were treated at every step of the way. Anybody got a link to the original article or story? edit: never mind, my google is strong today: Link |
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I think I've seen that one. Is this the story where the widow is shown sleeping on the floor next to the coffin while two marines stand watch all night? That was Captain James Cathey, his remains were escorted by his best friend, back home where his widow pregnant with James Cathey Jr. Her husband's namesake. And YES she slept in the chapel on a mattress placed there by the Marines with her husband. The Marines stood guard for her all night long. 
At the first sight of her husband’s flag-draped casket, Katherine Cathey broke into uncontrollable sobs, finding support in the arms of Major Steve Beck. When Beck first knocked on her door in Brighton, Colorado, to notify her of her husband’s death, she glared at him, cursed him, and refused to speak to him for more than an hour. Over the next several days, he helped guide her through the grief. By the time they reached the tarmac, she wouldn’t let go. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography went to Todd Heisler and The Rocky Mountain News for this photographic series. © All rights reserved by Todd Heisler and Rocky Mountain News. |
| Saw it today. I did 2 burial details while being an active duty Marine and the families were always very happy and appreciative to have a funeral with military honors. I thought the actors... all of them especially Kevin Bacon did a very good job at depicting what disapline and dedication an escort would have in making sure the remains of a fallen Marine made it home to the family. I could not help myself either in weaping and if a movie like that doesn't make you feel something you have no heart. I loved the part at the security screener asked him to remove his uniform jacket and he kept his bearing and said you can wand me but the jacket isn't coming off. |
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I think I've seen that one. Is this the story where the widow is shown sleeping on the floor next to the coffin while two marines stand watch all night? That was Captain James Cathey, his remains were escorted by his best friend, back home where his widow pregnant with James Cathey Jr. Her husband's namesake. And YES she slept in the chapel on a mattress placed there by the Marines with her husband. The Marines stood guard for her all night long. http://thegoodparts.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/katherine-cathey-james-cathey-todd-heisler-1.jpg http://thegoodparts.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/katherine-cathey-james-cathey-todd-heisler-2.jpg http://thegoodparts.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/katherine-cathey-james-cathey-todd-heisler.jpg http://thegoodparts.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/katherine-cathey-james-cathey-todd-heisler-3.jpg http://thegoodparts.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/9-katherine-cathey-james-cathey-todd-heisler-4.jpg At the first sight of her husband’s flag-draped casket, Katherine Cathey broke into uncontrollable sobs, finding support in the arms of Major Steve Beck. When Beck first knocked on her door in Brighton, Colorado, to notify her of her husband’s death, she glared at him, cursed him, and refused to speak to him for more than an hour. Over the next several days, he helped guide her through the grief. By the time they reached the tarmac, she wouldn’t let go. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography went to Todd Heisler and The Rocky Mountain News for this photographic series. © All rights reserved by Todd Heisler and Rocky Mountain News. That's the one I was thinking of. Damn my allergies and the dust. |
| I watched it and kept flashing back to CWO Matthew Kelley's funeral a few weeks ago and the many similarities with all those in uniform in attendence and the extreme amount of respect given to this fallen soldier. It was also ironic that the Phelps in the movie was a hero and the Phelps' at Matt Kelley's funeral were the scum of the Earth. |
