Shocking New Pentagon Report: Some 9/11 Victims’ Remains Ended Up in Landfill
- Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:06pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — A new Pentagon report reveals that partial remains of some 9-11 victims were sent to a landfill after they could not be identified.
The victims were among those killed when a terrorist-hijacked airplane struck the Pentagon, killing 184, and another crashed in Shanksville, Pa., killing 40.
The report says several portions of remains that could not be tested or identified were given to a bio-medical waste disposal contractor. The contractor incinerated them, then took them to a landfill.
The information was in a report on the military’s Dover mortuary, where the practice of putting partial unidentified remains in a landfills was discontinued in 2008. The Washington Post offers more background on that:
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.
On Tuesday, a new Defense Department review of the mortuary operations at Dover revealed that “several portions of remains” recovered from the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon and at Shanksville also ended up in a landfill.
According to the report, says the Post, the mortuary officials assumed that “after final incineration, nothing remained.” But that was not the case, and the left over material from the incineration process was then taken by the contractor and dumped in the landfill.
The process has since been changed so that any such remains are now buried at sea.
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Justus39
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:32amOur over worked Public Servants need pay raises.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:13pmBoo friggin hoo. Havent we spent enough money building monuments and comforting the families? Grow up! Everyone dies!
Report Post »applehill
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 11:06pmI agree. We look to make monuments out of everything. These remains could be anything from toes, livers, spleens. They got rid of the remains. Should we spend a bunch of tax money trying to figure out who’s toe this belongs to? One thing we are all guaranteed and that is death. We spend so much time and money trying to remember others death and ‘honor the dead’ There a lot of living people who need that love and attention.
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:20am“The report says several portions of remains that could not be tested or identified were given to a bio-medical waste disposal contractor. The contractor incinerated them, then took them to a landfill.”
I don’t see what the big deal is about this. What else were they supposed to do? Give the remains to some family member and say, “Here. We don‘t know who’s remains these are but you can have them.”
When I die I just want to be cremated and thrown in the garbage. I‘m dead at that point so I don’t really care what happens to the ashes. Why save them anyway? Just use them for Thistle fertilizer or something useful like that.
Report Post »Leopold_Dude_III
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:13pmWhy should we expect anything less from a government that has no respect for the human life yet alone the remains of fallen heroes and citizens. I agree with Gonzo a simple memorial would have been more fitting than rotting with the trash..
Report Post »Moozmom
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:07pmNot at all shocking to me. Those remains are mourned by their loved ones, but their souls are more whole now than when residing in their earthly bodies.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:07pmWhy is this so shocking? Unidentified remains and body parts are medical waste and must be incinerated to prevent disease. When the medics amputated my left arm, I suspect it was incinerated and buried someplace at China Beach. Should I have expected the Army to send my arm to my Mom for burying?
What do you think happens to your appendix or gall bladder after it is removed? It is contaminated medical waste and is incinerated. Do you really care where it goes?
As a vet, I do not think this is discourteous or disresptful.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:46pmDISMAYED: “As a vet, I do not think this is discourteous or disresptful.”
I disagree. These are human remains and should have been buried in a cemetary as they do the unknown soldiers. Just because the entire body isn‘t there doesn’t make it any less human and then treated as trash. It’s bad enough what happened to them but then to throw them away in a landfill. Very disrespectful where I come from.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:03pmhow long has the muslim brotherhood been slithering in the Pentagon,anyway, degrading America. ——– at least since ‘Oral-boy’ Slick Willie Clinton who protected UBL by deliberately NOT going after him during 2 windows-of-opportunity in the ’90s. ( revealed in book DERELICTION OF DUTY by Col Patterson).
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:01pmWhy is this such a big deal? Unidentified body parts are medical waste which must be incinerated to avoid disease. When the medics amputated my left arm I suspect it was incinerated and buried some place at China Beach. Should I have expected the Army to send my arm to my Mom for burying?
Do you really think about what happens to your appendix or gall bladder after it is removed?
As a vet, I really don’t consider this discourteous or disrespectful.
Report Post »Pittakos
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:00pmThe real atrocity is not what happened to the remains but how those once living people got turned into remains. Let’s stay focused on the real enemy, here.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:04pmTrue!!!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:59pmthat rabid communist animal obama is laughing his tail off at this news, again. his muslim buttbuddies just succeed in hurting America all over and over again.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:09pmSpeaking of rabid, are there really so few stories on this site that actually have something to do with President Obama that you have to use a story about stuff that happened from 2003 to 2008 when Bush was President as an excuse to express your hatred for him?
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:34pmyou are being a caricature, hills.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:22pmThis is old news. Heard about this going on years back while Bush was still in office…some of the remains were unidentifiable and it’s also not uncommon when you consider the number of mass murders over the years abroad. Sad but true.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:21pmThis is what the Pentagon does for us. I mean, did anything have to be brought out in public about this?
Report Post »Hey, I have an idea, you know what happened when some military people accidentally burned the Corain? Let’s see if Obama comes out and opologizes for this??? I bet the looser won’t say a word.
spirited
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:31pmChances are, he will.
>If he can blame Bush.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:01pmThis is just a good example of what the governments view of you as a citizen is……an exploitable resource……To people like Obama, we are nothing more than serfs to be ruled, taxed and exploited, until we are no longer of value to the State….then we become nothing more than refuse, to be dumped, like the people referred to in this article.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:17pmI heard this earlier on the radio. Why wouldn’t they just burry them in a common grave at a memorial at each site? It would at least leave each family a place to visit and leave flowers. These things are not that difficult to figure out for anyone but a government bureaucrat.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:34pmYes, a tomb of the unknown soldierS
>and, a tomb of the unknown terrorized
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:10pm.
Report Post »This is not shocking at all. Just ask the Hero’s at Arlington National……