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Facing Reality

by David Kurtz
10.29.09 | 5:28 am

Scenes from the President’s middle-of-the-night trip to welcome home war dead at Dover AFB:

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CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller, whose specialty is tracking such things, reminds us that this is the first such Dover trip by any President since the Afghanistan war started in 2001.

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