Service members remains dumped in landfill during shrub junta

How did people not think that this was a problem?

The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of portions of troops’ remains by cremating them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, a practice that officials have since abandoned in favor of burial at sea.

The Dover, Del., mortuary, the main point of entry for the nation’s war dead and the target of federal investigations of alleged mishandling of remains, engaged in the practice from 2003 to 2008, according to Air Force officials. The manner of disposal was not disclosed to relatives of fallen service members.

On Tuesday, the Air Force acknowledged that the mortuary had lost a dead soldier’s ankle and an unidentified body part recovered from an air crash; had sawed off a Marine’s arm so his body would fit in his casket...

Mutherf@*&ers.  2003-2008. The shrub junta.  Anger cannot be expressed in either polite or impolite company!  The repugicans blather on and on about patriotism, but when it comes down to it, all they are is blather.