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This movie starts out with two Marines driving wearing dress blue uniforms to a place that doesn’t get shown. Then it cuts to Lt. Col. (Lieutenant Colonel) Mike Strobl played by Kevin Bacon searching on his computer the casualty report for the middle east. After a few clips of Kevin Bacon running through the woods, service member’s coffins getting put into an airplane, and some driving. We find the Lt. Col. at work giving a presentation to several other Marines. Then the Lt. Col. makes his way home with his family for a short while, then the camera cuts to five Marines in woodland MarPat camouflage taking US Flag draped coffins off of an airplane in the rain. After a short clip of the Lt. Col. eating dinner with his family, we find him looking at the casualty report yet again but this time he writes down some information. The movie then cuts to him in an interview with a higher ranking Marine and he asks to escort a Marine named PFC (Private First Class) Chance Phelps. He says it is because the PFC is from his hometown, then we see him discuss his choice with his wife. After he explains that he is doing this only because the PFC is from his hometown and has no other meaning, the film cuts to several people doing medical procedures on a dead body which one can assume to be PFC Phelps. After the morticians are shown, the film then cuts to the Lt. Col. leaving and telling his wife goodbye. He then gets to the Dover Port Mortuary where he gets his instructions on how to go about escorting the fallen Marine. After the instruction, all the service members who are awaiting to escort their fallen comrades, they head outside and render honors to the departing escorts. The Lt. Col. then gets told that Phelps isn't ready to be transported yet due to the amount of casualties. So he gets a hotel room and the next day he does an inventory, with another Marine, of Phelps' personal items including: A cross on a string, a Saint Christopher necklace, a wristwatch, and Phelps' dog tags. The Lt. Col. then verifies that the body in the van is in fact the PFC and begins his drive to the airport where he has a talk with Rich Brewer played by John Magaro of the Dover Port Mortuary. They talk about the military and how the driver knew some people from his high school who didn't make it back from when they shipped off. He makes it to the airport, says goodbye to the driver and renders honors to the PFC. He then checks into the airport where the ticketing agent tells him that he has been upgraded to First Class. He goes through Security and tells the TSA agent that he can't put Phelps' personal items into the x-ray scanner. He also says that he won't take off his Marine Dress Uniform Jacket to go through the metal detector because it would degrade the uniform. He then renders honors to the PFC as the coffin gets put onto the airplane. The man next to him orders a Jack Daniels, and he orders a water and the man asks him "What, are you on duty?" he replies, "Yes, I am" and they take off. While in the air the flight attendant hands him a crucifix and tells him that she wants to have it.