This Memorial Day I took a bit of a personal memory lane. A part of that was recalling other past Memorial Day. And it got me thinking about one of the most powerful coverage on American service members’ death and their body coming back to their family that I have ever read titled “Final Salute,” a photo essay by Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News. It was the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. I don’t know when it happened but my old link to the PDF that Rocky Mountain News posted no longer works but I found a way you can still see the photos and read the story here. If you haven’t seen and read this before, you got to do it.
The Domain for Truth 
Thanks for the article, Jim. I’m grateful to all the men and women and their families who sacrificed so that we can enjoy political and religious freedoms. The journey of this family brings it home. We pray that the Gospel message will continue to go out unhindered.
I too pray the Gospel would have a hearing this day in light of our country reflecting the memory of those who gave their lives in service of the United States. I’ll be catching up with reading blogs including yours later tonight…been a long weekend! I hope you have a blessed meaningful day!
Thanks, Jim! I had a blessed day and weekend and hope yours was as well.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow 😳
We just finished reading that as a family and I think it was worth every second. Thanks Jim.
Wow I’m amazed you guys read it as a family; there was more chopped onion than a a kitchen serving a restaurant’s French onion soup of the day within those pages that I don’t think I have the courage to read it aloud with others . Commendable.
Well, I had NO IDEA what we were getting into. But my wife read from a John MacArthur devotion today with my two older children and me, and then I said, let’s read this article.
So my wife volunteered to read and it took a lot longer than it should have because she and I kept crying!