Report: Air Force dumped remains of 274 troops in landfill

[rfranklin]

The incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops were dumped in a Virginia landfill, according to government records, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Air Force officials said that the dumping was hidden from families who had given authorization for the remains to be disposed of in a respectful and dignified manner, according to the newspaper.

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There were no plans to inform families, officials told the newspaper.

New information revealed that the practice, exposed by The Washington Post in November, had become very widespread until it was halted in 2008, the newspaper reported.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/08/9290603-report-air-force-dumped-remains-of-274-troops-in-landfill

This is the "respect" that our troops receive!

[WildNovember]

1. I think this is very telling if it happened as stated. Behind all the pomp, the real circumstance

of patriotism.

[Sherman A1]

2. The question that must be asked is

why?

I guess it was just easier than to do things properly.

[FarCenter]

3. To be accurate, these were just odd bits and pieces, not the main parts of bodies

"According to records the military gave The Post, between 2003 and 2008, 976 fragments from 274 personnel were cremated, incinerated and dumped in the landfill. An additional 1,762 remains, which could not be DNA tested because of damage from explosions, were gathered from the battlefield and dumped in a similar manner, the Air Force told the newspaper."

[Bigmack]

4. Outrage! Oh... I don't mean the disposal of the remains..

I mean sending them in the first place.

Disposing of parts is bad, but disposing of the whole human beings by flushing them down that shithole is the act of a country without a soul.