united flight of 664 on june 6th of 2006 from chicago o hare to grand rapids, my life changed. and as we pulled into the gate in grand rapids, the captain came over the p.a. and said we had an american hero on board that we were carrying the remains of corporal buckland and his twin brother, corporal brad buckland and brought him those 6,000 miles home from iraq and he went on to make another request that everybody stay in their seats to honour the sacrifice this young man had made until his remains had been removed and that night as an f-16 pilot, i saw the other side of war. the family on the darkest night of their lives welcoming their son home, their father, his 4-year-old son was on the tarmac. you were watching the 4-year-old son see his dad come home in a casket? yeah, absolutely. and, you know, at that moment in my life, i knew i had a mission. and there are 172,000 dependents that have had somebody killed or disabled just in iraq or