This is perhaps the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever read.
There is no excuse for this kind of behavior by the Arlington Cemetary employees. If those in charge won’t answer voluntarily, Congress needs to make them answer.
This insensitivity made me livid. How about you?
The day of reckoning is coming for these a$$holes.
I have to go calm myself down now.
Mad out, but more determined.
God bless all of those (and all of their loved ones)
who have made the ultimate sacrifice for me and my prosperity.
Amen.
Crying now. What if that were my son? The Marine and so many others gave all to keep my family safe and this is how we treat them and their families?
“...will not answer for what they’ve done. Why?”
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Guvment is in charge and knows better, don’t you know?
I confess to having been too busy with financial news in the last several months to have kept up with the issues at Arlington.
For those who, as I did, lack background, here’s what caused the father to go to such lengths of verification:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092006325.html?hpid=topnews
Several months ago I read an article stating that there are approx. 6,000 graves that Arlington cannot verify WHO is buried there!
My brain cannot even comprehend the emotion of that moment.
That father did right by his son! Painfully moving.
Never before have just the written word almost made me sick.
This was just sickening and heartbreaking, reading what that father had to go through in order just to be sure that was his son in that casket.
Why? Because there isn’t an immediate threat to put THEM in the ground.
A little waterboarding, a weapon deafening one ear, and who knows what could be accomplished.
How utterly horrific. My heart is aching for this father and my tears are for our beautiful soldiers treated with such disrespect. I am ashamed of our government.
Is there nothing at all that can be done to replace and then punish these heartless idiots.
Words are not adequate to describe how unacceptable this is.
Another reason we need to elect a Republican Congress.
Democrats don’t care and won’t require accountability.
Let’s move on and all that.
We have to remember this in January, 2011.
Along with impeachment.
Realize that this father had to look through only PARTIAL remains—a whole body was not there.
The horror of that is unimaginable.
A father’s love drove this dad to do the unthinkable—look for the arm, look for the tattoo.
Then finding it, realizing this indeed was his flesh and blood, a son he watched growing up, a son that was his dreams for the future, a son he watched go off to war.
And body parts are all that is left.
May this father be given God’s peace for his grief.
Like his son did for his country, this father gave the last
full measure of devotion to his son.
He is a man to be admired. God bless him and give him rest.
Wow.
Shocking.