“You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it’s sobering beyond belief. There’s no

“You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it’s sobering beyond belief. There’s no music in the background, but just the stark reality of those caskets laying there against the backdrop of this huge 747.”

David Pautsch

After he watched the remains of his son and four fellow soldiers killed in Iraq arrive in the United States on a jumbo jet.

“Richard, your family loves you, your family is praying for you, and your family is saving a chocolate Easter egg for you, unless your son eats it first.”

Andrea Phillips

In a message delivered to her husband, Capt. Richard Phillips, after U.S. Navy snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the seafarer.