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Obama greets caskets of returning Americans
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Oct 29, 2009 09:51am |
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| News Date | Thursday, October 29, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - U.S. President Barack Obama saw first hand the human cost of the Afghanistan war Thursday as he saluted the flag-draped caskets of 18 soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.
After a midnight flight in his Marine One presidential helicopter, Obama landed in Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, home of the largest U.S. military mortuary and main point of entry for service members killed abroad.
The previously unannounced visit came as Obama weighs whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight an insurgency that has reached its fiercest level in eight years.
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