{"id":1081,"date":"2016-10-17T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:12:35","slug":"the-things-that-carried-him-outline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/the-things-that-carried-him-outline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things That Carried Him &#8211; outline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part One: Indiana, The End<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-burial\n<ul>\n<li>Don Collins standing outside, mapping a rectangle<\/li>\n<li>Find out that the rectangle is for a burial<\/li>\n<li>Scene-setting of Collins carefully beginning digging process<\/li>\n<li>Starts digging and it\u2019s a little different than his normal process<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers arrive and we learn this story has a military component<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burying the body\n<ul>\n<li>Travel to cemetery<\/li>\n<li>Casket enters cemetery for military funeral<\/li>\n<li>Casket description, adds detail about the person\u2019s military past<\/li>\n<li>Prayer and songs<\/li>\n<li>Military funeral rituals\n<ul>\n<li>Fired three volleys<\/li>\n<li>Background on buglers<\/li>\n<li>Leatherbee plays trumpet<\/li>\n<li>Emotion of this ritual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers carrying casket and seeing the person\u2019s family<\/li>\n<li>Flag folding\n<ul>\n<li>First step, emotion<\/li>\n<li>Triangular folds, pride of those who do it<\/li>\n<li>Completion of fold<\/li>\n<li>General officer in attendance\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction of the young wife<\/li>\n<li>Pinckney approaches wife, Missie<\/li>\n<li>Pinckney reflects on difficulty of job<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ties in Pinckney\u2019s emotion with flag folding and Missie\u2019s pain<\/li>\n<li>Purpose of flag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Service ends\n<ul>\n<li>Cover with dirt<\/li>\n<li>Person buried was Sgt. Joe Montgomery, who was 30 years old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gail Bond reflects on Joe\u2019s baptism\n<ul>\n<li>Smokes<\/li>\n<li>Gail\u2019s brother has died; we learn that her first husband was Joey\u2019s father and he died in a car wreck; her parents died consecutive days and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of those who are mourning Joey\u2019s death\n<ul>\n<li>Joey was first person from Scott County to die in Iraq; many people didn\u2019t know Joey<\/li>\n<li>Learn details about Joey \u2013 liked to write, brave, became a soldier to make older brother proud and wanted to make better life of his wife and kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seymour, Indiana\n<ul>\n<li>Procession\n<ul>\n<li>Was very well attended<\/li>\n<li>Worried about protesters, but the Patriot Guard was formed in response<\/li>\n<li>Dunaway met Micah Montgomery in jump school and came down from Alaska to be Joey\u2019s escort<\/li>\n<li>Mayor drove while crying<\/li>\n<li>Seeing people crying for you<\/li>\n<li>Joey used to work at steel forge<\/li>\n<li>Ryan\u2019s best-friend relationship with Joey\n<ul>\n<li>How they became friends<\/li>\n<li>Ryan helped set Joey up with Missie<\/li>\n<li>Ryan sold paintings to Joey<\/li>\n<li>Now Ryan is designing Joey\u2019s tombstone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Line of mourners\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Graham saying what that meant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Post high school Joey, homeless\n<ul>\n<li>Went to Florida to live with sister<\/li>\n<li>Ryan came to visit<\/li>\n<li>Joey asked mom to bring him home, said he had to obey the rules<\/li>\n<li>Joey came home and followed rules, went to work, became a father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Joey joined the Army\n<ul>\n<li>A fresh start, climbed the ranks<\/li>\n<li>Gail last saw Joey Christmas of 2006<\/li>\n<li>Her saying bye to him at airport<\/li>\n<li>Now he\u2019s coming home again in the procession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Back to funeral scene\n<ul>\n<li>Joey looked good enough for family viewing<\/li>\n<li>Details of Gail and Missie seeing him dead<\/li>\n<li>Joey was missing ring; Micah put his own ring on Joey\u2019s glove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jim Staggers\n<ul>\n<li>Describes military handoff<\/li>\n<li>How Staggers became chaplain<\/li>\n<li>Staggers approach to his work<\/li>\n<li>He tried to prepare Joey\u2019s family<\/li>\n<li>Guardsmen assessing casket weight to find out about the person\n<ul>\n<li>Joey\u2019s was lighter than expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with emotion of seeing tearful children<\/li>\n<li>Staggers thinks about his own children<\/li>\n<li>Psalm and approach casket\n<ul>\n<li>Missie<\/li>\n<li>Gail<\/li>\n<li>Staggers\n<ul>\n<li>Can\u2019t deny humanity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lift casket and carry to hearse<\/li>\n<li>State troopers head back\n<ul>\n<li>Two people in van joined members of Indiana National Guard going to Iraq<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part Two: Dover Air Force Base<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How bodies are taken back to U.S.\n<ul>\n<li>Greene talked about chartering plane<\/li>\n<li>Before remains of soldiers had been sent on commercial planes<\/li>\n<li>Changed ways of how military dead are delivered<\/li>\n<li>Special planes devoted full-time to this<\/li>\n<li>Crew of these planes\n<ul>\n<li>Emotions of crew<\/li>\n<li>Familiar routes, some places they\u2019ve never landed<\/li>\n<li>Before Joey, neither had flown to Seymour, Indiana<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSmaller the town, the bigger the turnout\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Memories of trips<\/li>\n<li>They became more practiced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Casket pushed onto ball mat<\/li>\n<li>Family is \u201chit by the truth\u201d when casket comes through door\n<ul>\n<li>Hardest part<\/li>\n<li>Now Jones doesn\u2019t stay in open door<\/li>\n<li>Memories of when it takes a long time \u2013 in Seymour, so many people below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mortuary\n<ul>\n<li>Mortuary description\n<ul>\n<li>People who work there<\/li>\n<li>Impact on people who work there<\/li>\n<li>Karen Giles accepts reality of job<\/li>\n<li>Dignity, honor and respect \u2013 motto<\/li>\n<li>Joey is 3,431<sup>st<\/sup> person killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Arrival at mortuary, five days there<\/li>\n<li>Process at the mortuary\n<ul>\n<li>No unexploded bombs, ammunition, booby traps found<\/li>\n<li>Unpacked from case<\/li>\n<li>No personal effects<\/li>\n<li>Counseling and meditation rarely used<\/li>\n<li>Chaplain<\/li>\n<li>Arrived with \u201cbelieved to be\u201d status<\/li>\n<li>Autopsy\n<ul>\n<li>Consistent with proximity to explosive device<\/li>\n<li>Wounds documented, prepared for burial<\/li>\n<li>Body fluids replaced by preservatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Viewability\n<ul>\n<li>Putting Joey back together<\/li>\n<li>Description of putting others back together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Body in casket\n<ul>\n<li>Attention that goes into this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flag happens last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Protocol of moving bodies and the emotion\/importance of the job\n<ul>\n<li>Formica\u2019s background in military death procedure<\/li>\n<li>Specific instance of Joey<\/li>\n<li>Honor guards waiting\n<ul>\n<li>Religion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open door and red carpet<\/li>\n<li>Honor guards march out<\/li>\n<li>Process is still brutal for crew<\/li>\n<li>Case in front of cargo door protocol<\/li>\n<li>Sparks memory of saying prayer<\/li>\n<li>Carrying cases into trunk<\/li>\n<li>Never gets easier, always person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part Three: Forward Operating Base<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journey to the States\n<ul>\n<li>KIA in south Baghdad\n<ul>\n<li>Slaght was friends with Montgomery<\/li>\n<li>Where Slaght is now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Helicopter touches down<\/li>\n<li>Joey is carried into truck<\/li>\n<li>Placed in bag<\/li>\n<li>Slaght\u2019s distraught<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Micah learns Joey is dead\n<ul>\n<li>Calls mayor and then calls Aunt Vicki<\/li>\n<li>Tells Vicki to go to his mom\u2019s house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The news breaks\n<ul>\n<li>Gail finds out from Vicki<\/li>\n<li>Everyone begins to find out<\/li>\n<li>Missie finds out from Ryan<\/li>\n<li>Men come to Missie\u2019s house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How Joey died\n<ul>\n<li>Listening to music heading to party<\/li>\n<li>Description of people in the car<\/li>\n<li>Joey had just had weekly phone call with family\n<ul>\n<li>Explosion interrupts phone call<\/li>\n<li>Joey emails that he\u2019s OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Description of roads and IEDs in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Driving down Red Wings\n<ul>\n<li>Road turned to dirt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Humvees pull inside Patrol Base Red<\/li>\n<li>Briefed the 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