Dover Air Force Base, Del. • Six U.S. soldiers carried the flag-draped transfer case with the remains of Maj. Brent Taylor of the Utah National Guard as family members wept nearby.
It was near 4 a.m Tuesday, the tarmac damp from a daylong rain and the darkness portraying the somber moment of returning a fallen soldier from the battlefield.
Taylor, the mayor of North Ogden, was killed Saturday in Afghanistan by a rogue Afghan security officer. The Utah National Guard officer leaves behind his wife, Jennie, and seven children, the youngest only 11 months old.