Their loved ones would be taken care of back here at home. And today theyre not. Their families have been told those instant benefits to cover funeral costs, travel expenses to say goodbye, sorry. You will have to wait. This is what theyre told. And that includes the families of these four soldiers and one marine killed last weekend in afghanistan. Four of them brought home for burial just hours ago. Well pause and take a moment to show you the video of the poignant ceremony for one of them at Dover Air Force base. Uninterrupted in just a moment, but first, if there is any sound worth hearing from either chamber of congress today, it is this, and its not from a lawmaker. Lord, when our federal shutdown delays payments of death benefits to the families of children dying on far away battlefields, its time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. Cover our shame. With the robe of your righteousness. Forgive us, reform us. And make us whole. Right now, the house is voting on a bill which
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