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so what s this day like for them and is there anything we can do to help them cope with being away from home for the holidays? joining me now to discuss is cnn military analyst, former army commander general of europe and 7th army lieutenant general mark hertling. a string of titles, well earned and deserved there, general. you and i have had a chance to talk about this before, being away from family for the holidays, serving overseas, you absolutely miss your family, would love to be home, but there is a different side of it as well. explain. yeah, it s an emotional roller coaster, john, that s for sure. you re missing, you are a little bit lonely, but you re trading your biological family for your military family, truthfully, and the leaders and your fellow soldiers, sailors, air men, marin marines, coast guards men, they all make the best of what some might consider a bad situation, but truthfully i have never seen in my almost 40 years in the service anyone complaining
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is now being called special airlift mission 41. we can show you the media that is gathered here. a lot of cameras on the poedup. the ceremony itself is a mirror image of when we saw monday with the 77th army band from fort till, oklahoma. friends and well wishes gathered and we re told members of the houston astros and the houston texans football team. bush 41 was a fan and friend of both of those teams. the ceremony it so will be solemn and tightly choreographed as it s been once the jet arrives and the family departs. the band will play. the hail to the chief, a simultaneous 21-gun salute and bush 41 will be brought to the waiting hearse to move to the church where the funeral will
the national cathedral, every single minute was planned, scripted, rehearsed. you have to think that this was in the works for decades. by the way, credit to the army s military district of washington. they were responsible for planning and playing out what was a 20 page script for this funeral. all the way down to the anthems and hymns, to the number of ruffles and flourishes. that preceded hail to the chief, 16 of them played today. 21 gun salute, three of them rang out. and then the funeral bell. you heard it ringing time after time when the coffin reached the steps of the cathedral. it rang 41 times. just the incredible military display. it makes you so proud as an american to watch this today. it was really something. dana: indeed. it was flawless from a military standpoint, the staff that worked on it and the family that