Galleries by Craig Haggit
Marine Sgt. Jeremy Kocher stands watch near the body of Lance Cpl. Evenor Herrera.
Marines escort the casket of Marine Lance Corporal Evenor Herrera to a gravesite in Eagle.
Blanca Stibbs rests her head on her husband David Stibbs' shoulder
Lori DeMille touches the headstone of fallen Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Burns.
Families of fallen Marines were presented with posthumous medals.
Jo Burns comforts Corporal Dustin Barker, 22, during a ceremony honoring the actions of fallen Marines.
Marines prepare to deliver posthumous medals to families.
Katherine Cathey pressed her pregnant belly to her husband's casket.
Major Steve Beck takes Katherine Cathey's hand and pressed it down on her husband's uniform.
Katherine Cathey sleeping next to her husband for the last time.
Major Steve Beck folds back the flag while preparing to open James Cathey's casket.
For three days straight, Marines stood watch over the body of 2nd Lt. James Cathey.
At the first sight of her husband's flag-draped casket, Katherine Cathey broke into uncontrollable sobs.
Jon Mueller and Matthew Baumann practiced folding a flag in preparation for the funeral of their friend.
Marines drape the flag over the casket of 2nd Lt. James Cathey in an airliner's cargo hold.
As his son's funeral neared, Jeff Cathey's tears rarely stopped.
Katherine Cathey falls onto the flag covering his husband's casket.
Sands of Iwo Jima cover white gloves at a Marine funeral.
Major Steve Beck and another Marine approach the home of James Cathey.
Jo Burns cries as she and her husband Bob opened the boxes containing their son's uniforms.