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Part One: Indiana, The End<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Lede, scene setting <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Establishes that the family is involved with the death process (coroners) and that Don Jr. would rather not continue this legacy <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. He digs in the ground <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Digs, sets up the plywood and takes dirt to far side of the cemetery \u2014 hints that funeral might be special as he behaves differently than normal<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Soldiers come to the funeral, it is clear he knows them, they set up, also gives time stamp (May 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Talks about the route taken by the hearse <\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Hearse arrives; discusses the procession <\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Soldiers take out casket; it is made for soldiers who died in Iraq and depicts scenes from the war. Also talks about people filing in. <\/span><\/li>\n
  9. More about the funeral ritual \u2014 \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d plays, a song by Nine Inch Nails (the dead clearly liked the band), and soldiers are signaled<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Soldiers fire honorary shots<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Leatherbee prepares to play<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Leatherbee plays, discusses bugle playing<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Leatherbee quote<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Soldiers return to fold flag; quote about how difficult that is, particularly for young families<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Dawson (soldier) talks about how he knew the family would remember the flag folding later<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Puts shells inside flag<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Presents flag to family<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Brigadier General used to explain process of getting military officials to attend military funerals & discussion about her always remembering the faces of funeral attendees <\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Talks about comforting the wife of the dead soldier, Missie<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Presents, on knees, the flag to Missie<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Talks about how they try to relate to the families of dead soldiers<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. The myth of folding the flag <\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Quote said during flag presentation<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Mourners leave funeral<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Placing of the temporary headstone<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. Name of soldier \u2192 Sgt. Joe Montgomery <\/span><\/li>\n
  27. Gail Bond remembers Joe\u2019s life (Gail is his mother)<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. Gail\u2019s reliance on smoking is described \u2014 she uses this for stress and negative events keep her from quitting<\/span><\/li>\n
  29. Description of those events<\/span><\/li>\n
  30. Talks about strangers attending the funeral because he was the first soldier from that town to die in Iraq<\/span><\/li>\n
  31. Talks about how the people at the funeral couldn\u2019t have known details about him \u2014 growing up in poverty, wanting more for his kids, being ashamed of his jobs, etc. <\/span><\/li>\n
  32. Escort from airport to the funeral home<\/span><\/li>\n
  33. More about the process of getting him to the funeral home<\/span><\/li>\n
  34. Gail worries about the funeral being picketed <\/span><\/li>\n
  35. Dunaway, a paratrooper, says he thinks it is an honor to escort the casket<\/span><\/li>\n
  36. Talks about driving by and seeing people react <\/span><\/li>\n
  37. Joey previously worked at a steel forge <\/span><\/li>\n
  38. Joey\u2019s best friend was Ryan Heacock \u2014 he was to be his best man at his wedding<\/span><\/li>\n
  39. How Joey & Ryan became friends in high school <\/span><\/li>\n
  40. Ryan set Joey up with Missie<\/span><\/li>\n
  41. Ryan used to sell Joey his paintings and Missie has a collection<\/span><\/li>\n
  42. Ryan designed Joey\u2019s tombstone<\/span><\/li>\n
  43. Interstate, mourners. <\/span><\/li>\n
  44. Quote about family being honored and it meaning a lot to them <\/span><\/li>\n
  45. Joey was homeless for a year when his parents kicked him out <\/span><\/li>\n
  46. He went to Florida to live with his sister<\/span><\/li>\n
  47. Ryan brings Joey home and Gail says he must work on his problems if he\u2019s going to move back in <\/span><\/li>\n
  48. He agrees and comes home. He dates Missie again<\/span><\/li>\n
  49. He fails to make ends meet and joins the Army as an alternative way to care for his family<\/span><\/li>\n
  50. Things smoothed out in their lives <\/span><\/li>\n
  51. Gail reflects on the last time she saw Joey alive at Christmas in 2006<\/span><\/li>\n
  52. Joey comes home again, but in his casket<\/span><\/li>\n
  53. Opening the casket<\/span><\/li>\n
  54. Viewing the body<\/span><\/li>\n
  55. Micah gives Joey his Mason\u2019s ring and the hand curls in on itself; Gail cries<\/span><\/li>\n
  56. Jim Staggers is introduced <\/span><\/li>\n
  57. Describes \u201chonorable transfer\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
  58. Talks about how Staggers came to this profession<\/span><\/li>\n
  59. Staggers reflects on what it would be like if he had been the one to die<\/span><\/li>\n
  60. Talks about how pallbearers can tell certain things about the bodies of the people in caskets based on weight<\/span><\/li>\n
  61. Joey\u2019s casket is too light but they don\u2019t react to this outwardly <\/span><\/li>\n
  62. Finding ways to keep their \u201cgame faces\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
  63. Pallbearers withdraw<\/span><\/li>\n
  64. Reading from Psalms \u00a046<\/span><\/li>\n
  65. Missie sobs<\/span><\/li>\n
  66. Gail comforts children <\/span><\/li>\n
  67. Staggers cries<\/span><\/li>\n
  68. Honor guard carries casket to the back of the hearse<\/span><\/li>\n
  69. The state troopers talk about how to do \u2018better next time\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  70. Two people in the van will go to Iraq also<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Part 2: Dover Air Force Base<\/b><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Steve Greene gets a call from the Pentagon and makes plans with the Air Force<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Description of how deceased soldiers were transported<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. They Holleys campaign to change how the Army handles deaths<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Kalitta had already been stationed<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Greene asks Kalitta if could handle all the flights of deceased soldiers the same as Tucker and Manchaca<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. Crew is randomly assigned out of Kalitta\u2019s ranks<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. Jones and Linton have flown the same route many times<\/span><\/li>\n
    8. Reveals that Jones and Linton helped fly Joey home to Seymour <\/span><\/li>\n
    9. They talk about how more people tend to show up in smaller towns<\/span><\/li>\n
    10. Discussion about parents not attending funerals<\/span><\/li>\n
    11. 85 hours of flying in a two-week stretch <\/span><\/li>\n
    12. Checking of paperwork<\/span><\/li>\n
    13. Pushing the casket off of the ball mat and onto the lift<\/span><\/li>\n
    14. Steve Green says he\u2019ll always remember Seymour <\/span><\/li>\n
    15. Major Cory Larsen introduced <\/span><\/li>\n
    16. Larsen worked at the Port Mortuary at the Dover Air Force Base<\/span><\/li>\n
    17. He is protective of co-workers <\/span><\/li>\n
    18. Karen Giles worked in the mortuary as well <\/span><\/li>\n
    19. Description of the building<\/span><\/li>\n
    20. Karen is the person who prepared Joey to return to Seymour<\/span><\/li>\n
    21. Process of cleaning the body<\/span><\/li>\n
    22. Talk about other areas of the building, including a counseling and meditation section<\/span><\/li>\n
    23. David Sparks talks about people in the atrium; he has been there since just after 9\/11<\/span><\/li>\n
    24. Arrival of Joey<\/span><\/li>\n
    25. Description of how to perform an autopsy <\/span><\/li>\n
    26. Specifics of Joey\u2019s autopsy<\/span><\/li>\n
    27. Wounds are recorded. <\/span><\/li>\n
    28. The body is further prepared<\/span><\/li>\n
    29. Talks about \u2018viewability\u2019 as a way of giving to the family<\/span><\/li>\n
    30. Morticians talk about putting soldiers back together <\/span><\/li>\n
    31. Description of cleaning a dead man\u2019s hair<\/span><\/li>\n
    32. Placing the body in the casket<\/span><\/li>\n
    33. Cremation preparation <\/span><\/li>\n
    34. Placement of the flag is the last step of the process <\/span><\/li>\n
    35. Introduction of Major General Richard P. Formica<\/span><\/li>\n
    36. Description of Formica\u2019s duties in the death\/burial process of soldiers <\/span><\/li>\n
    37. Formica was there when Joey came in <\/span><\/li>\n
    38. Chaplin Sparks tells a story about the Bible<\/span><\/li>\n
    39. K-Loader enters the platform<\/span><\/li>\n
    40. Honor guard marches<\/span><\/li>\n
    41. Honor guard handles one case at a time <\/span><\/li>\n
    42. Sparks gives a speech and says a prayer.<\/span><\/li>\n
    43. Sparks believes this is the most important work he can do <\/span><\/li>\n
    44. Formica gets emotional<\/span><\/li>\n
    45. Port Mortuary takes the cases<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Part 3: Forward Operating Base Falcon<\/b><\/p>\n

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      1. Sgt. Terry Slaght was Joey\u2019s friend and arranged his angel flight<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Talk about how Slaght realized it was his friend<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Regrets of Slaght<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Arrival at the Baghdad airport<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Getting Joey in the truck <\/span><\/li>\n
      6. Transporting Joey\u2019s body to the base<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. Description of how Gail found out about Joey\u2019s death, how Missie found out, etc. <\/span><\/li>\n
      8. Review of what happened on the mission that Joey was on when he died; talks about music, emailing Missie, etc. <\/span><\/li>\n
      9. Description of \u201chouse duty\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
      10. Joey\u2019s squad went first<\/span><\/li>\n
      11. Joey is teased, but respected by the men who follow him into battle<\/span><\/li>\n
      12. Joey is blown up in an explosion, eyewitness comments and quotes<\/span><\/li>\n
      13. They can\u2019t find Joey, then find his rifle<\/span><\/li>\n
      14. Later they find his body and know immediately he was dead <\/span><\/li>\n
      15. The team carries him out, though they couldn\u2019t find all of his body<\/span><\/li>\n
      16. Platoon talks about their shock and how surprised they were that Ross was okay<\/span><\/li>\n
      17. Talk about taking care of his body and making sure to get all of his stuff to send back<\/span><\/li>\n
      18. The platoon mourns<\/span><\/li>\n
      19. Seeing Joey for the last time as platoon members on May 23. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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