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...recover this tank and try to tentatively figure out who was in it and collect all the evidence. This was all done at a time when there were a lot of insurgents in the area. There were thousands of people on either side of the road, so we had to do crowd control in order to give ourselves room to do our work. We had the crowd pushing forward, so we had to push them back. And there were rooftops everywhere. It was a very sticky situation. But we ended up recovering the tank, and we were able to help...
...case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead, and it's very solemn and very quiet. There was no audience. This was a ceremony performed...
...cleanup, every last bit of contamination. Then we issue a certificate when we're done so they can have confidence that things were done the right way and perhaps resume living at the residence or have confidence selling it or renting out the room again. That's the physical side, and that has to be done perfectly...
...that's such a huge traumatic reminder of what happened. We refuse to let that happen. So what we do is we get lights, we go top to bottom, left to right, like an inch from the wall, just looking over everything. And that's part of the physical side, but it's also the extra step we take to take care of the psychological side. We did a cleanup of a suicide in someone's living room. It was a young kid - he was 18. This was right near Christmas, and there was tissue everywhere from the gun blast...
...There's a clinical side to him, and sometimes he keeps his passion under wraps. But he's genuinely funny." -Bruce Hawker, a friend and political consultant. (BBC, March...