JPAC admits to phony ceremonies honoring ‘returning’ remains (Fake war dead recovery)

Stars and Stripes ^ | Oct 10, 2013 | Editor

[batterycommander]

I suspect this is a way for someone in the Pentagon to fraudulently spent tax money and get a warm and fuzzy from grateful taxpayers. It also closes some books with our former enemies who are now our friends. This is a scam similar to the disappearance of our gold in Fort Knox. The gubermint ordered some Tungsten bars 15 years ago from a tungsten supplier. The bars were then plated with gold and put into certain stockpiles. The real gold was sold to China and Britain. All our gold is now gone.

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers... Thanks for the ping!

[OneVike]

Can we even be sure that the men dressed in uniforms are soldiers?

What if they are all a bunch of anti-military leftists playing the part to throw the wool over everyone’s eyes?

[Smokin' Joe]

The gubermint ordered some Tungsten bars 15 years ago from a tungsten supplier.

That was going on under the Clintons. Don't know if they started it, don't know if they finished the job.

[takenoprisoner]

Reads like someone overdosed on war propaganda...Who woulda thunk they’d creep this low? These deceitful SOB’s are depraved...using our fallen for propaganda? Are you kidding me? Really?

[ApplegateRanch]

So, they can do all this for show, but couldn’t set aside a few buck instead, to pay for broadcasting sports events to serving troops?

Do I have to question EVERYTHING the government says about anything at all? How far back?

Is General Grant really interred in Grant’s Tomb? Are there any remains in the Tomb of The Unknowns? Is Obama really fully vetted and qualified to be President?

[fso301]

How does anyone watching know if there really are remains in those boxes?

Once broken trust is hard to ever regain.

[dennisw]

This is really so typical of the average government employee(s) trying to justify their existence. Too many have jobs that do nothing and they just want to do nothing until they can retire. They put up a false front and people leave them alone..all the way up the chain of command.

This or maybe they got extra pay for participating in this bogus ceremony

[PLMerite]

I don’t see anything really wrong with this. Don’t the fallen deserve the recognition, no matter how much after the fact?

[count-your-change]

I can’t imagine anyone is ever going to dig up these containers to recheck identities and even if they did.....well it’s normal for an error to be made and differences of opinion and...and ...and...

[fso301]

I don’t see anything really wrong with this. Don’t the fallen deserve the recognition, no matter how much after the fact?

When teams scour a WWII airplane crash site high on a New Guinea mountainside, finding just dog tags and personal items may be sufficient evidence of servicemen's death at that location that such personal items along with a scoop of soil from the site may be treated as remains for ceremonial purposes. I don't think many would have a problem with that.

However, when digging around a WWII battlefield in Europe and a few bones are found, who is to say without DNA evidence who the bones belonged to, or if they even are from a WWII casualty?

Worst is the fear that teams go out, explore remote parts of the world, find nothing but return and conduct a ceremony for a serviceman whose name can now be struck from the roles of the missing.