Dr.Dean Finally Welcomes His Brother Home

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Dean Pauses to Reflect on a Brother's Long Trip Home
By JODI WILGOREN

ICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii, Nov. 26 — Howard Dean's eyes followed the flag-draped container on Wednesday as four servicemen slowly marched it from a mammoth cargo plane past a military color guard onto the back of a school bus. Dr. Dean did not cry, nor reach for his mother's hand, but simply swallowed hard, once, during the 15-minute ceremony.

Inside the aluminum container — military officials were careful not to call it a coffin — were remains believed to be those of Dr. Dean's brother Charlie, who disappeared while traveling the Mekong River in 1974 as part of a yearlong adventure tour around the world. And so Dr. Dean had interrupted his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to come here.

"This is Charlie coming home — that's better than not having anything," said Dr. Dean, a former governor of Vermont, who has called his brother's disappearance and death "the most traumatic events of my life."

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The rest can be found here at: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/politics/campaigns/27DEAN.html

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1. :kick:

[Kanary]

2. some closure

It's gotta be hard, but I'm glad that there was some sort of closure for him.

There are things in this life that you don't "get over".

I hope this brings him a measure of comfort and relief.

Kanary

[AmericanDem]

3. God Bless him and ...

his family!

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

4. Another good article about it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16636-2003Nov26.html

I'm glad the Dean family will finally have closure.

[Demobrat]

5. Charlie's spirit decided it was time to come home

and help his brother save the world. God bless them both.

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6. you know.....Dean always said that it would've been Charlie

that would've run for President today, not him. I think a part of why Dean's running is to bring that dream true for his brother.

[Lefta Dissenter]

7. Gee, I thought it wasn't permitted

to welcome home a... well, a 'transfer tube.' Oh, wrong war.

I am so sorry for their whole family, to have suffered this loss. I hope it will ease their minds and hearts a bit - having him back home, but it just seems that nothing could soothe the pain that a family suffers when they lose a young life.

My heart goes out to them.