How would you react if you were on a flight where a family was boo'd for being allowed off the plane first to receive their soldier's body?

I’ll be glad to: This did not happen. At least, not the way it’s been presented here.

This happened on a flight from Sacramento, CA to Denver, CO. The family was on their way to Dover, DE to meet the flight that was carrying their Fallen Warrior from the Middle East.

Some significant factors not made clear are...
1: Contrary to the picture posted here, the coffin was not on the aircraft that this ‘event’ happened on. It was on another aircraft somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean...
2: The flight was already almost two hours late departing Sacramento (for reasons totally unrelated to this family)...
3: The family was identified by the Pilot of the aircraft as, “a special Military Family”, not a “Gold Star family”...

So, based on this additional information (which I researched and commented on three years ago), I am convinced that, “passengers booing a Gold Star family” did not happen. Rather, passengers who were already late to catch connecting flights (Denver is a ‘hub’ airport; meaning that most of the passengers probably had connections they hoped they weren’t already too late to make). The reaction was not other passengers booing a Gold Star family, it was one or two people groaning at the thought of missing their connection to... an important business meeting... the vacation they’d been planning for two or three years... a family member’s wedding/funeral/graduation/et al...fill in the blank with any reason you’ve had to fly that required using multiple flights...

The groaning passenger probably was not booing a Gold Star family. He/she was probably upset because of another delay on top of the two hour delay they’d already experienced.

That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Unless, of course, somebody really did boo a Gold Star family. Then, if I’m in the immediate area (not likely since I rarely fly first class), I’d scowl at them, then go about my own business. I’d probably have my own connection to make and won’t have the time to discuss it.