The following quote was from an email that I received from my husband about the importance of 25 minutes. The quote is his and the rest is my own.
"Twenty-five minutes is actually valuable and precious. It could be the total amount of sleep a Soldier gets get if the camp is being attacked at night. Or, this could be the time a Marine father gets to speak with his family in a week or more. Or, this is about the amount of time a Navy corpsman has to gather his thoughts on the way to give medical aid to a brother wounded in an IED attack. Also, twenty-five minutes is plenty of time for the Air Force pilot to fly over and give close air support to his buddies on the ground. Ultimately, when Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen are saying goodbye to their beautiful families at the airport, they would give anything for another twenty-five minutes to hold them close."