WKYT | Lexington, Kentucky | News, Weather, Sports  Military
Changes How It Brings Soldiers' Bodies Home   That change -
which took effect quietly in January and applies to members of
the U.S. military killed in Afghanistan, too - came after a
campaign waged by a father who was aghast to learn that his
son's body was going to be unloaded like so much luggage.  John
Holley said an airline executive told him that was the "most
expeditious" way to get the body home.  "I said, `That's not
going to happen with my son. That's not how my son is coming
home,"' said Holley, an Army veteran from San Diego whose son,
Spc. Matthew Holley, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in
2005. "If it was `expeditious' to deliver them in garbage
trucks, would you do that?"  Kalitta Charters of Ypsilanti,
Mich., won the Pentagon contract to bring the war dead home, and
has returned 143 bodies since Jan. 1.    Now, the military is
flying the dead into smaller regional airports closer to their
hometowns, so that they can be met by th