Remains to the Landfills!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Twilla, many of these were body parts found after the "rest" of the body was returned to the families and buried. I can only imagine that they considered the cost of exhumation and reburial would be too expensive, but if they took the remains and cremated, it's just too easy to put it in the ground on top of a buried body.

If you had cremated your loved one, there's nothing stopping you from putting those ashes in with the rest.

Seeing how easy that is above, something stinks in the whole process. You're right, why wouldn't they want them themselves? Maybe coercion of some sort, a bigger fuck up than we know of and someone's covering their ass? I dunno. I do know that unless the soldier was indigent (and you can't be if employed by the military) with no family, put them in Arlington with all the others. Something stinks bad IMO.

What is the procedure for Arlington these days? I know my father was eligible to be buried there but he chose to go to his Catholic cemetery in Long Island. Can anyone who served be buried there or is it for fallen in war only? Only those who saw action? What?