U.S. President Barack Obama (R) participates in the dignified transfer of U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, October 29, 2009. Griffin is one of 18 U.S. personnel who died Monday in Afghanistan and returned to the U.S. on board an Air Force C-17 military transport plane.
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President Barack Obama, center, and Attorney General Eric Holder, lower right, and others in the official party walk onto a military transport plane for the dignified transfer event for Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., who died in Afghanistan according to the Department of Defense, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


President Barack Obama, left, is the last of the official party to walk off of a military transport plane for the dignified transfer for Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., who died in Afghanistan according to the Department of Defense, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


U.S. President Barack Obama participates in the dignified transfer of U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, October 29, 2009. Griffin is one of 18 U.S. personnel who died Monday in Afghanistan and returned to the U.S. onboard an Air Force C-17 military transport plane.
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President Barack Obama, left, Army Assistant Judge Advocate Maj. Gen. Daniel Wright, second from left, Army Special Forces Commander Brig. Gen. Michael Repass, center, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norman Schwartz, right, salute as they participate in the dignified transfer event Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., for Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., who died in Afghanistan according to the Department of Defense. Soldier second from right is unidentified.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


U.S. President Barack Obama participates in the dignified transfer of U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, October 29, 2009. Griffin is one of 18 U.S. personnel who died Monday in Afghanistan and returned to the U.S. on board an Air Force C-17 military transport plane.
REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES POLITICS MILITARY)


President Barack Obama, far left, salutes as an Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., during a dignified transfer event at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)