Today's 21-Gun Salute

It was for Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Jarod Newlove.

I'm not gonna go into too much detail, but suffice to say today is by and large the most intense event I've covered to date.

This person was killed in Afghanistan while serving in Afghanistan - he was a member of my unit in Everett. This is the closest the death of war has ever come to me. I hope it never happens again.

I took a lot more photos, but I'm sharing them w/ the unit and family first.