USFallen.org's video: SSGT Omar Aceves KIA Homecoming Jan 2011

Dallas, TX Jan. 20, 2011 at DFW, a charted flight from Dover, DE, landed at approximately 10:15 with the remains of SSGT. Omar Aceves. The winds were brisk and temperature was in the low 30's and falling. The light rain and fog just added to the miserable weather. The plane taxied to the Corp. Aviation terminal and parked in front of a line of 1/2 dozen media videographers including myself. Also a delegation of Patriot Guard Riders of North Texas, a USAF Honor Guard, Ft. Hood Army 1st Cavalry Pall Bearers. Leticia his wife was escorted by SSGT Hawkins, an Army Casualty Assistance Officer, assigned to oversee SSGT. Aceves' return home. His wife also asked her pastor and his wife to join her for morale support. Though the DoD lists him as being from El Paso, which is where he is from, he had a home in Dallas where his wife is from and their children. As the plane crew lowered the flagged draped casket to the tarmac, the Pall Bearers approached the plane and rendered honors. The casket was then slowly transferred to an awaiting hearse provided by Jeter and Sone Funeral Home. His wife stood silently as she watched the dignified transfer of her husband returning home from war. The Department of Defense announced the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Jan. 12, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. Killed were: Sgt. Omar Aceves, 30, of El Paso, Texas. Spc. Jarrid L. King, 20, of Erie, Pa. Pfc. Benjamin G. Moore, 23, of Robbinsville, N.J. They were assigned to the 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y., Aceves was postumusly promoted to Staf Sargent.