TIME Photo Essay: Honor After the Fall : Informing military families that loved ones have died in Iraq. At his home in Aurora, Colorado, Maj. Steve Beck, site commander of Marine Air Control Squadron 23 at Buckley Air Force Base, hugs his wife Julie before leaving at 2 a.m. to conduct a casualty notification. "If it was your son," he says, "would you want us to let you sleep?". PHOTO BY TODD HEISLER / ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
TODD HEISLER / ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Honor After the Fall : Informing military families that loved ones have died in Iraq
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At his home in Aurora, Colorado, Maj. Steve Beck, site commander of Marine Air Control Squadron 23 at Buckley Air Force Base, hugs his wife Julie before leaving at 2 a.m. to conduct a casualty notification. "If it was your son," he says, "would you want us to let you sleep?"
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