So imagine there’s some American soldier who gets killed in a war and the army sends a notification detail out to tell his next of kin, and they drive up and do the iconic walk to the door in their dress uniforms, and knock, and just nobody’s home.
What do they do, come back later? Wait there? Leave one of those “sorry we missed you” notes on the door? What if no one comes back that night? Maybe they’re on vacation, maybe their mom had a heart attack and is in the hospital the next state over and they ran off to deal with that without leaving notice, what then?
Like, the ritual of it is so iconic, but only when it goes right, and at scale it must go wrong often enough they have process for it, what is it?
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