Saturday, November 12, 2011

Worship War Day: Graveside Visit

Do you really know who or what is buried there?

"Pentagon taking closer look at Dover mortuary" by Robert Burns AP National Security Writer / November 9, 2011

And how appropriate that the Globe switched stories. My printed paper carries a WaPo piece I can not find on the web in its printed form.

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is trying to reassure members of the military and their families that it has fixed problems in how human remains were handled at the Dover, Del., military mortuary. In two cases, body parts were lost.

Yet an independent federal investigative agency contends that the Air Force, which runs the mortuary, has yet to face up to all the faults in Dover's operations....

Three mortuary supervisors were punished for what the Air Force called "gross mismanagement." But no one was fired in a grisly case reminiscent of the scandalous mishandling and misidentifying of remains at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia....

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Also see: A Trip Through Arlington

They died for lies.