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#1814004 - 05/14/13 05:02 PM This is UNBELIEVABLE.
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This is an old story, however, I was in Afghanistan when this broke so this is the first I have heard of it (facebook) but MAN.. this makes me SO. MAD. Almost sick.

274 US Soldiers Remains Dumped In Landfill

I just had to vent.. as a vet myself, it just really disturbs me.

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#1814014 - 05/14/13 05:29 PM Re: This is UNBELIEVABLE. _erica_
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#1814015 - 05/14/13 05:28 PM Re: This is UNBELIEVABLE. _erica_
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#1814055 - 05/14/13 06:13 PM Re: This is UNBELIEVABLE. _erica_
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"It would require a massive effort and time to recall records and research individually," Jo Ann Rooney, the Pentagon's acting undersecretary for personnel, said in a Nov. 22 letter]


That woman needs to spend some time with the parents and spouses of the soldiers who died for their country, and maybe she'd start to think it's worth the effort.
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#1814082 - 05/14/13 06:37 PM Re: This is UNBELIEVABLE. MyBrainHurts
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
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cremated, incinerated and dumped


after 5-11 years, how will you be able to retrieve ash and seperate it from dirt? or be able to determine whose remains are whose, can't DNA test ash. Stupid that they did this, but no way to undo what was done.

we owe our soldiers a better legacy
Last edited by HappyGilmore; 05/14/13 06:37 PM.
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#1814215 - 05/14/13 09:13 PM Re: This is UNBELIEVABLE. _erica_
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Holy [censored]! Are you [censored] kidding me!?!?!
Someone has to held accountable for such an unthinkable act! mad
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