The NASA protocol during 1969 (if indeed your understanding of it is correct) is hard to comprehend. At the same time, there are certain things about todays disaster, and its aftermath, that we dont need to know, or witness.
The reports of body parts being found, although surely a need-to-know part of the investigation for those whose job it is to decipher what happened and why, are not something about which the average American needs a detailed description (let alone photographs). A small fraction of our populace (the Jerry Springer audience type) may somehow thrive on that type of information. I believe the rest of us would rather be spared it. I, for one, am taking some small comfort in the fact that our seven astronauts most likely had little or no idea that they were about to die. What happened to their physical bodies immediately after the cataclysm is of little importance to all but the investigators.
BTW?
Happy Birthday, Mrs-f.