Dead On A Slab In Iraq For 9 months With No Family Contact Or Next...

[bridgit]

Of Kin Having Been Notified: just back in from a sunday breakfast where our bartender seemed a little down this morning. hubby asked him how he was doing, he replied, "Oh, i'm fine." but he was down and hubby keyed upon it asking him further, "What's wrong?" he being otherwise a very buoyant, outgoing person.

he told us his partner was in the military, but had just received word that his female friend had been killed in iraq some 9 months ago, and has been laying on a slab in a makeshift morgue for 9 months, without the army having made, clearly, much more than the barest of cursory attempts to contact her family or next of kin...

they finally contacted him knowing that he had been in her company, and that he has had to contact her family. and that the entire experience has made his partner very sad indeed...

what is wrong with this country? what has happened to us?

[Haole Girl]

1. How horrible. Was she a contractor, an Iraqi, or aid worker?

Just wondering. That story does not surprise me, though, with the news seeping out slowly from Iraq about numerous atrocities.

[bridgit]

2. u.s. military - army specialist...

my sense is that she deserved better :cry:

[Haole Girl]

3. Much better. What the heck is going on...that we can't take care

of our own military personnel better than that? This story should go public. I would recommend he call his local TV news stations about it.

[bridgit]

4. the impression he left us with was that they are considering just that...

[querelle]

5. Why Bother?

They wouldn't report it anyway. The media is doing such a fantastic job sucking up to GWB and concealing probably many other news items like this one. Unless it's the Village Voice or any other progressive news outlet, it's a waste of time.

Q

[bridgit]

6. plus iraq is already lost & bush has been out of ideas if ever he had...

any to begin with...the new/improved war is in lebanon while bush prances round his ranch singing "calgon, take me away..."