(Matthew 25:40)
Three senior officials at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, sacred ground for the military and the main entry point for the nation’s war dead, knew they had lost body parts of two service members killed in Afghanistan but did nothing to correct sloppy practices at the base mortuary, the Air Force said Tuesday.
Did you read that? They lost body parts.
(ETA: WP coverage.)
The investigation did not uncover what happened to the body parts, but held out the possibility that they fell out of plastic Ziploc bags while stored in a large refrigerator in the mortuary and ended up in tubs with the remains of another service member or perhaps cremated.
But hey! They manage to account for 99.5% of the body parts! Shouldn’t we give them a pass? After all, it isn’t like they work for Penn State…
Joe Paterno’s tenure as the coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.
I haven’t had much to say about the story because….well, I haven’t had much to say about the story. I’ve always had a certain fondness for Penn State (my dad went there for a couple of years, and Penn State was his college football team, to the extent that he followed sports), but what can you say about this?
For once, I’m going to point to a FARK thread, which actually contains some good information and links (in addition to the usual FARK Internet Tough Guy BS).
And remember our friendly Orleans Parish prosecutor’s office? They got their butts handed to them by the Supreme Court in oral arguments.
“There have been serious accusations against the practices of your office, not yours in particular, but prior ones,” Justice Sotomayor said. “It is disconcerting to me that when I asked you the question directly, should this material have been turned over, you gave an absolute no.”
“That’s really troubling,” Justice Sotomayor added.
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