Horror stories of negligence from Dover mortuary which handles the remains of American troops killed overseas

kateoplis:

The Air Force admitted that the Dover mortuary misplaced a dead soldier’s ankle and another set of remains that had been stored in a plastic bag. Employees also sawed off the damaged arm bone of a Marine so he could fit in his uniform and coffin — but did not tell his family.

Military officials said the incidents resulted from the strain of handling thousands of dead bodies, some with gruesome injuries that made it difficult to prepare remains for burial. […]

The grisly findings at Dover echoed a similar scandal at another hallowed repository for the military’s dead, Arlington National Cemetery. An Army investigation last year documented cases of misidentified remains at Arlington, dug-up urns that had been dumped in a dirt pile and botched contracts worth millions of dollars. […]

Dover mortuary has also been dumping cremated portions in a Virginia landfill for years.

So much for treating our war dead with honor.

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    The Air Force admitted that the Dover mortuary misplaced a dead soldier’s ankle and another set of remains that had been...
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    This country sure loves treating its soldiers as expendable killing machines, doesn’t it?
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    This is shocking.
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    That “honor” link above has it right. Our military is a vicious behemoth deployed in more than 3/4 of the world’s...
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    This is horrible.
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    Disgusting. “so much for treating the war dead with honor”
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