| By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Oct 29th, 2009 at 10:37 am EDT |
US President Barack Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware early Thursday morning, to receive the remains of 18 Americans killed this week in Afghanistan.
Obama arrived at the air base, the main point of entry for the nation’s war dead to return home, shortly after midnight.The president also met privately with the families of the 15 soldiers and three agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency, reports the New York Times.The overnight trip was not announced in advance.
October has been the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war began eight years ago, with at least 53 killed.
Obama boarded the transport plane that had brought back the dead, and watched as a military chaplain prayed for those who had passed.The president returned to the White House shortly before 5:00 a.m.
The trip occurred as Obama decides whether to deploy more US soldiers to Afghanistan.
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