Reports say the US has dumped the remains of nearly 300 American troops
killed in action overseas in a landfill in the state of Virginia.
According to the Washington Post, report on Wednesday, the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan had been sent to the King George county landfill in Virginia.
The US Air Force is reported to have dumped the cremated partial remains in the landfill between 2004 and 2008.
The report was based on database information at the Dover Air Base mortuary, where the remains of most war fatalities return.
The actual number is considered to be far more than what the military admitted to, before reportedly halting the practice in 2008.
The US military concealed the corpses' dumping from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner.
Officials say there are no plans to alert the families of the deceased soldiers.
The landfill disposals were never formally authorized under military policies or regulations.
In another report, investigators found body parts of soldiers stacked up in the military morgue in Virginia. Some of the remains appear to have been stored months or even years awaiting identification and disposal.
According to icasualties.org, about 7000 American soldiers have died in Afghanistan and Iraq so far.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/214462.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
Disgusting'
They said a precise count would require trawling the records of 6,300 troops whose remains had passed through Dover since 2001.
But the Washington Post reported on Thursday that Air Force data between 2004-08 showed 976 fragments from 274 military personnel had been taken to the dump after being cremated.
Another 1,762 remains - which did not undergo DNA testing because they were too badly damaged - were disposed of in the same manner, according to the newspaper.
This is unforgivable
Gari-Lynn Smith, the widow of an Army bomb-disposal expert killed in Iraq, began asking the military in 2007 what happened to some of his remains that were identified after his funeral the previous year.
After four years of letters and phone calls she received a letter from the mortuary in April informing her that her husband's partial remains had been disposed of in the King George County landfill, reports the Post.
"I hope this information brings some comfort to you during your time of loss," read the letter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
I have read this story and they are saying it was "pieces of bodies"...SO WHAT. They died serving their country and this is how they are repaid. The ultimate sacrifice and then treated like rubbish!!
Anyone and everyone involved in this should be ashamed, from the White House down!!
According to the Washington Post, report on Wednesday, the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan had been sent to the King George county landfill in Virginia.
The US Air Force is reported to have dumped the cremated partial remains in the landfill between 2004 and 2008.
The report was based on database information at the Dover Air Base mortuary, where the remains of most war fatalities return.
The actual number is considered to be far more than what the military admitted to, before reportedly halting the practice in 2008.
The US military concealed the corpses' dumping from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner.
Officials say there are no plans to alert the families of the deceased soldiers.
The landfill disposals were never formally authorized under military policies or regulations.
In another report, investigators found body parts of soldiers stacked up in the military morgue in Virginia. Some of the remains appear to have been stored months or even years awaiting identification and disposal.
According to icasualties.org, about 7000 American soldiers have died in Afghanistan and Iraq so far.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/214462.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
Disgusting'
They said a precise count would require trawling the records of 6,300 troops whose remains had passed through Dover since 2001.
But the Washington Post reported on Thursday that Air Force data between 2004-08 showed 976 fragments from 274 military personnel had been taken to the dump after being cremated.
Another 1,762 remains - which did not undergo DNA testing because they were too badly damaged - were disposed of in the same manner, according to the newspaper.
This is unforgivable
Gari-Lynn Smith, the widow of an Army bomb-disposal expert killed in Iraq, began asking the military in 2007 what happened to some of his remains that were identified after his funeral the previous year.
After four years of letters and phone calls she received a letter from the mortuary in April informing her that her husband's partial remains had been disposed of in the King George County landfill, reports the Post.
"I hope this information brings some comfort to you during your time of loss," read the letter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
I have read this story and they are saying it was "pieces of bodies"...SO WHAT. They died serving their country and this is how they are repaid. The ultimate sacrifice and then treated like rubbish!!
Anyone and everyone involved in this should be ashamed, from the White House down!!
Disgusting!
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