Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.
      In April, 2004, casualties mount in Iraq. At Quantico, choices focus on increasing troop strength or only replacing casualties. Lt. Col. Mike Strobl crunches number. Stung by his superior's rejection of his recommendation because he lacks recent combat experience, Strobl volunteer for escort duty, accompanying the remain Pfc. Chance Phelps, killed at 19. From Dover to Philadelphia by heare, from there to Minneapolis and on to Billings by plane, and then by car to Phelps' Wyoming home - peron after peron pays respects. Kind words, small gifts, and gratitude are given Strobl to deliver to the family on this soul-searching journey. What are his own discoveries?

In 2004, the U.S. war in Iraq has yet to have signs of ending in front of the casualties of soldiers have been increasing ... U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Mike (Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon ornaments) to accept a mission: to escort anand other soldiers money to Sri Lanka's remains for burial in their hometowns, despite Mike Chance strangers, which is not his subordinate, but the Gulf War, Mike has the responsibility to help the Colorado Association of buried. At the same time, the remains of Chance and his comrades from a European airport, the road home, in a solemn atmosphere, their remains are carefully cleaned, numbered, and carefully placed in the hearse ...... after the relevant etiquette training, Mike has embarked on a road escort, along the way, he felt the diverse American public respect for the soldiers killed in the afar, and this not only is an escort, but also Mike and the dead silent dialogue ...