Stacked on Pallets, Left on Tarmac: Honored War Dead Become Air Freight

[johnfunk]

Via First Draft:

My friend and I then drove to Ramstein Air Base, 15 minutes north of Landstuhl. After going through security, we went upstairs and saw several cargo planes and a commercially leased jetliner on the tarmac. As we were trying to determine which planes were C-5s and which were C-141s, a retired veteran approached us and said, under his breath, that there had been several casualties brought in that day. He complained that the caskets hadn’t even been met by an Honor Guard but rather, were unceremoniously stacked on pallets and left on the tarmac to be redirected elsewhere. Just then, the man’s MAC flight was called, and he left us before we could talk to him further.

More here.

Someone, please tell me: where is the outrage? Where are demands that this practice be ended and ended now -- especially from the preening poseur patriots at Free Republic?

Oh, right -- Dear Leader has issues a quiet edict that our honored dead are not to be seen, photographed, publicized. Wouldn't be good for the crony capitalists at Broen & Root or the oil companies using Iraq to drain our treasury.

I don't know about you, but I'm dropping a line to my local newspaper...