What do you do when a person loses a limb, or has something surgically removed, save it ?
Fragments, mostly unidentifiable. Prioritize. This is a dristraction of the Washington Post.
Major distraction indeed. Countering Fast & Furious???
Fragments, mostly unidentifiable. Prioritize. This is a dristraction of the Washington Post.
When a person loses a limb, they at least are still alive. MAJOR DIFFERENCE.
I don't give a damn if the fragments are unidentifiable - they deserve to be treated with respect. Cremation and a burial at sea with an appropriate service would be just fine.
But, tossing them away is intolerable. By your thinking, we shouldn't even have a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - just dig 'em up and throw them away since they are not identifiable ...
Why do you think we have teams in Vietnam looking for lost remains? Why do you think that when farmers in France [and other European nations] find remains from WWI and WWII, they call their government agency responsible for the bodies? They then try to identify and return the bodies to their nations [if possible] - barring that, the remains get a proper burial in one of the overseas cemeteries.
And I don't give a damn whether the tossing of remains happened under Bush or Obama. Those in the military that authorized this KNEW they were doing wrong and KNEW they were dis-respecting the remains.
They should be accountable for it - not just reprimanded and re-assigned.