Soldiers' ashes dumped in landfill

[TheTman]

274 soldiers' ashes dumped in Va. landfill

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...n-va-landfill/

I guess they don't care, they're dead. Seems like a crappy way of "dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner."

[muggsy]

Who benefits from this information being released. I intend to be cremated so that all of you yahoos can kiss my ash goodbye.

[AJBert]

As a retired military guy here, and one who spent a year in Iraq, I'm thinking this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion.

I'm not sure how many members on here have ever seen the aftermath of an IED. Sometimes there are only parts, as in small parts, left of those who were once there. Not a lot of fun to scrape up them up. I imagine it isn't a lot of fun to try and identify each and every cell, either.

Ever have a finger nail or toe nail pulled off at the doctor's office? Appendectomy? Tonsils yanked out? Wart removed? Cyst? They are all medical waste, much the same as the (as I read) small body parts/fragments. The families had signed off (again, as I read) that the majority of the body had been identified and buried, interned, cremated, etc. A proper funeral, per the families requests, had been held.

If something had happened to me over there, I could give a rat's *** if a part of me ended up in some damn landfill. The body is but a vessel for the spirit. It is the spirit that others remember.

How many service members never had a piece of the vessel ever returned to these shores in the past? How many are buried overseas or lost below the waves of the ocean? How many more do the family members have no clue whatever happened to them?

Too much damn PC in this country for me, and this is just another example IMHO.

[muggsy]

+1 AJBbert. Funerals and ceremonies are for the living, not the dead. Like a friend of mine once said, "All of my medals and 25 cents will buy me a cup of coffee." Of course that was back in the '60's.

[Sage]

Once a person is dead what is left behind is, well, basically trash.

[TheTman]

If it was your son or daughter, would you want them thrown in the landfill? Probably didn't matte to those families, since they told the military to dispose of the bodies.

Sorry, I won't mention it again.

[muggsy]

If it was my son or daughter I wouldn't trust the government to handle the funeral. I'm a conservative and depend on myself.

[TheTman]

It was probably soldiers with no close kin. So nobody wanted to pay for a funeral or anything. Or else maybe their was close kin, but they couldn't afford a funeral.

[AJBert]

"They" weren't thrown into a landfill. "They" did have burials with military honors. What WAS thrown into the landfills were body parts that were connect to "They" AFTER the funerals.

Would you want to dig up your son or daughter (or what they could find as the biggest physical parts of them) so you could add a tiny bit of a spleen or bone fragment to the rest of them? Like I said before, way overblown IMHO.

I'm just curious as to how many families the "reporter" had to track down and interview until the finally found one who was upset.

[Longitude Zero]

As a retired military guy here, and one who spent a year in Iraq, I'm thinking this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion.

I'm not sure how many members on here have ever seen the aftermath of an IED. Sometimes there are only parts, as in small parts, left of those who were once there. Not a lot of fun to scrape up them up. I imagine it isn't a lot of fun to try and identify each and every cell, either.

Ever have a finger nail or toe nail pulled off at the doctor's office? Appendectomy? Tonsils yanked out? Wart removed? Cyst? They are all medical waste, much the same as the (as I read) small body parts/fragments. The families had signed off (again, as I read) that the majority of the body had been identified and buried, interned, cremated, etc. A proper funeral, per the families requests, had been held.

If something had happened to me over there, I could give a rat's *** if a part of me ended up in some damn landfill. The body is but a vessel for the spirit. It is the spirit that others remember.

How many service members never had a piece of the vessel ever returned to these shores in the past? How many are buried overseas or lost below the waves of the ocean? How many more do the family members have no clue whatever happened to them?

Too much damn PC in this country for me, and this is just another example IMHO.

Agree 1000%.