War Dead

Remains Of War Dead Dumped In Landfill

The Washington Post | Craig Whitlock and Greg Jaffe | Posted 01.09.2012

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The Dover Air Force Base mortuary for years disposed of portions of troops’ remains by cremating them and dumping the ashes in a Virginia landfill, ...

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One November's Dead: The American War Dead Disappear Into the Darkness

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Engelhardt

The American dead have, it seems, like the war they are now fighting, generally gone into the dustbin of news coverage.

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The View From the Maine Woods

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nick Mills

On a fishing trip in the Maine woods one has the time and space, the solitude and quietude, to contemplate the world "as deliberately as Nature, and n...

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New York Times: Military Establishment Frustrated With Pace Of Obama's Deliberations On Afghan War

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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After nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise ...

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Pentagon To Allow Photos Of Returning War Dead

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-cover...

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