9/11 Victims’ and Soldiers' Remains Taken To Landfill

9/11 Victims’ and Soldiers' Remains Taken To Landfill

Some small portions of unidentified human remains recovered from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., were incinerated and ultimately dumped in a landfill, the Defense Department acknowledged Tuesday.

It was the first time that the Pentagon has said that some remains of Sept. 11 victims taken to the Dover Air Force Base mortuary later ended up in a landfill.

In November, The Washington Post first disclosed that the Dover mortuary for years had disposed of incinerated portions of remains of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in a Virginia landfill. The practice involved unidentified or unclaimed body parts; it was not made known to troops’ family members.

The Air Force later admitted that it had dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 service members in the landfill between 2003 and 2008, when the practice ended. At the time, Air Force officials said their records only went back to 2003 and that they did not know when the landfill dumping began.

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Whatever happened to supplying grave sites for unknown soldiers? These remains aren't garbage.

To the Gooberment we are all garbage, unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Tyrsonswood

To the Gooberment we are all garbage, unfortunately.

Yep...

Gotta look at it as a rare bit of honesty from the powers that be. Frankly after processing all I've seen and heard in my time I've concluded that we're probably looked upon more as livestock to the corporate puppet masters and the legislative bitches whose agenda they write and campaigns they finance. Any time a politician- particularly at the federal level- lays any claim to giving the slightest fuck about us I immediately know that he or she is lying and I can disregard whatever else is being said because the person is attempting to put a spin on something they rightly assume I will not particularly like if fed to me straight.

We are all disposable to them. They can fucking throw me in a dumpster when I'm finished for all I care... just don't charge my estate or surviving family for the "service". I know they think of me as an expendable piece of garbage which is fair turnabout because I look at government officials and their corporate overlords as unmitigated pieces of fascist shit.

I mean, don't get me wrong. This is sad, these remains deserve better, the remaining family members deserve better, but it's not likely we will return to the days were no man was left behind, proper internment happens, monuments are built, etc. They just don't care any more. Look how well they treat the living members of the service once they come back...

This is a national disgrace and beyond unacceptable . They die fighting their fucking war for profit because of the propaganda they spin . and this is how their treated after giving those bastards their life .

We can fly the flags at half mast for a pop star , and yet the nobody veterans who they claim to care so much for , are disguarded in a fucking dumpster like trash .

It gets better and better every day . All that's missing now is those Westboro baptist fruitcakes showing up at the landfill for a hate protest .

There is no hope for this country . Is nothing sacred anymore ? w.t.f

Originally Posted by Tyrsonswood

I mean, don't get me wrong. This is sad, these remains deserve better, the remaining family members deserve better, but it's not likely we will return to the days were no man was left behind, proper internment happens, monuments are built, etc. They just don't care any more. Look how well they treat the living members of the service once they come back...

It is sad. I think it should be pursued... but not in the isolating manner that enables them to cover up with a disingenuous and deceitful "oopsie" brand of bull-shittery engineered to placate and mollify a public they think no more highly of than they would a herd of nuisance feral dogs. Call it out as a symptom of the contempt that has enabled them to stand idly by while the economy was being looted by all manner of corporate/government skullduggery - from an artificial housing bubble purposefully inflated to make quick cash and dispose of mortgagees to petroleum manipulation through the purposeful maintenance of the instability in the region that a large portion of it comes from while empty words about dependence on foreign oil are publicly tossed about to manipulate and pacify the people ultimately getting fucked.

The fact that the criminal syndicate would irresponsibly toss into a dump human remains that deserve some dignity and respect shows that they have such contempt for us that they aren't even going to much effort to hide it.

Every citizen needs to see shit like this and told exactly the kind of warped sense of values and ethics that enables it to happen. They need to fully comprehend just how little regard their government has for them and the complete lack of concern it holds for how its policies are affecting all of us.

I was going to post this aerianne! Beat me to it lol, its a shame we treat humans like garbage.

they did everything possible to identify any leftover remains....with all the shit that 911 caused i dont feel this is such a big deal.... ..throw my ashes in the landfill too...i dont want my kids burdened with having to visit a fucking urn somewhere to leave flowers etc........once someone is dead it doesnt matter anymore

Originally Posted by ROLLINGALONG

they did everything possible to identify any leftover remains....with all the shit that 911 caused i dont feel this is such a big deal.... ..throw my ashes in the landfill too...i dont want my kids burdened with having to visit a fucking urn somewhere to leave flowers etc........once someone is dead it doesnt matter anymore

Cool.

For all the propaganda tripe they've worked up over 9/11 and its justification for moving the country ever closer to a police state they'd better treat any remains recovered as sacred relics and pile them into a solid gold crypt that gets kissed hourly by the head of Homeland Security whose position wouldn't have been promoted as so necessary without their sacrifice.