Article snippet: White House Donald Trump found himself in the midst of a controversy over his alleged comments to the widow of a fallen soldier and claims about former presidents' attempts to reach out. Kelly, whose son, 1st Lt. Robert M. Kelly, was killed in action in 2010, described the process of alerting a fallen service member's family about their death and transporting their body back to the United States. Kelly's appearance and somber descriptions during the top of the White House press briefing were his idea and sought to add context as the conversation over the deaths of U.S. soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger have spiraled into political back-and-forth, senior White House officials told ABC News. "Most Americans don't know what happens when we lose one of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines or Coast Guardsmen in combat," Kelly said. He then detailed the painstaking process of bringing a fallen soldier home. "Their buddies wrap them up in whatever passes as a shroud," he said, adding that a fellow soldier "puts them on a helicopter as a routine and sends them home." The bodies are packed in ice, he said, placed in the plane and flown to Europe. The soldier's remains are once again packed in ice and flown to Dover Air Force Base. Once at Dover, the bodies are embalmed, then someone "meticulously dresses them in their uniform with the medals that they've earned, the emblems of their service and then puts them on another airplane linked up to the casualty... Link to the full article to read more