i want to return america to the principles that made this nation great. our founders began with this great american experiment. they created a nation conceived in liberty, and then trusted with us the duty to preserve it and to defend it. in the generation since, more than a million americans have made the ultimate sacrifice. one day toward the end of my term as governor, my office got a call telling us that a soldier had been killed in iraq. his casket was on a u.s. airways flight back to massachusetts but his family hadn't been able to be notified in time to get to the airport to receive his remains. and so they asked if i would go to the airport in their stead. i said of course. we drove over to the airport out on to the tarmac. the jet came in and the people disembarked. and then the luggage began