SUP****TING THE TROOPS THE GOP WAY
Since 2001, the U.S. military has cremated the remains of approximately
200 service members at Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service, a Delaware
facility that primarily cremates pets. The practice was stopped
yesterday, as the Wa****ngton Post re****ts:
The revelation came to light when an Army officer who works at the
Pentagon traveled to Delaware on Thursday to attend the cremation of a
military comrade. Offended to discover that the facility was labeled as
a pet crematory, the officer sent an e-mail late Thursday night to
superiors at the Pentagon that included a photograph of the signage.
The Friends Forever manager said that service members usually dropped
off remains and returned the next day to pick them up. The practice is
“contrary to the normal procedure,” in which the military is supposed to
provide “an escort for all service members killed overseas during
trans****t to the United States, and again after ‘medical processing’ at
the Dover mortuary as the deceased returns home for interment.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/10/fallen-us-troops-cremated-at-friends-forever-pet-cremation-service/
