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Efforts to ease pain as families gather at Dover

‘We would truly like to be out of business,’ says the commander of the facility where soldiers who have died return to the states, but that’s unlikely to happen with 30,000 more troops yet to reach Afghanistan

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — Shortly after 4:20 a.m. on Easter Sunday, a pair of flag-covered caskets with the remains of two Marines, both killed the previous week in Afghanistan, were carried out of the belly of a C-17 into the sight of their waiting families.

As two mothers, a widow and a....

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