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Second Place
Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
"Jim Comes Home"
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When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno
Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag
over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During
the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International
Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in
the process: 'See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the
plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their
minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home,' he said.
'They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives.
They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.'
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