handle with care

Greetings from BWI. I just landed from my last business trip for a long while. My plane had two military officers escorting the body of a soldier, and I happened to be sitting on the wing and saw them saluting the coffin as it conveyed on the belt from the plane. The box went down the belt to a special truck, whose roof was covered with a flag. Somewhere, a mother, a father, a sibling are about to have a very difficult day. A proud day, but a sad one, too.