More coming out about the disgraceful handling of soldiers, and 9/11 victims, remains during the previous administration and that DoD on the Dover Mortuary under military leadership but with many private contractor supervisors and morticians and others!
What adds to the disgraceful handling of these remains is the fact that a number of that administrations personal, especially rumsfeld and cheney, had long histories in the top ranks of government leadership, in or directly around, for many years thus showing what shaped the way they did their jobs during the time of war drum beating and implementation leading to two long occupation theaters of death and destruction!
James J. Lee / Staff: A marker at Arlington National Cemetery honors Ensign Elizabeth Ann Bonn, Lt. Jason Manse, retired Cmdr. David Roark and Air Force 1st. Lt. Jason Davis. The four were killed in 2006 when their Sabreliner training jet crashed in Georgia. Instead of being interred at Arlington, some of their mingled remains were deposited in a landfill.
Mar 6, 2012 - There are no remains underneath the headstone at Arlington National Cemetery erected in memory of four people killed in the Jan. 10, 2006, crash of a Navy T-39 Sabreliner training jet.
That’s because the Air Force sent the cremated remains that were supposed to be buried there to a Virginia landfill, along with remains of seven Sept. 11 victims and those of hundreds of other service members.
Lt. Jason Manse, Ensign Elizabeth Bonn, Air Force 1st Lt. Jason Davis and retired Cmdr. David Roark died in the crash.
The news came in a report made public late last month by an independent Defense Department panel investigating the growing scandal stemming from management problems at the Dover Air Force Base, Del., military mortuary.
Elizabeth Bonn’s mother, Debbie Bonn, didn’t know of the mix-up until a Military Times reporter contacted her lawyer. Manse’s widow, Tammy, found out while watching an NBC News broadcast on the scandal.
“As a mom, my biggest thing was that I wanted our daughter back. And in the very beginning, when they brought her back from at Dover, what they told me was that I had all of her and she was intact,” Debbie Bonn said tearfully.
“We think that the military, it’s not clear whether it’s the Navy or Air Force or both, knew that they had a problem there and did not tell us everything that they knew. They knew more than they told us.”
snip In 2008, the Air Force ended the practice of sending cremated remains — most of which were not claimed by families — to landfills, and now hands them over to the Navy for burial at sea. read more>>>
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