Delaware (Take Me Home)

A chaplain with Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, walks down the flightline toward the passenger terminal after a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Delaware

Music & Lyrics Copyright 2012 by Larry Knox

  

As the snow falls

boots echo down hallowed halls

handle me with care

as I lie in Delaware

As the robin sings

and the church bells ring

lilac fills the air

remember me in Delaware

   The cost of freedom 

   is paid in blood–

 the loss you're grieving

   may be healed from above

So if you hum this tune

under an amish harvest moon

consider this my prayer

for those bound for Delaware

 Now take me home

Dignified Transfer
An Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center carry team wait for the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers, of Hopewell, Va., to be lowered from the aircraft at Dover Air Force Base, Del., April 5.  Sergeant Myers' family is the first to allow media to cover the dignified transfer under the new Department of Defense policy. 
(U.S. Air Force photo)