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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review of the handling of the remains of US war dead and apologized after learning that some were cremated in a commercial facility that also cremates pets, the Pentagon said. ... Pentagon press secretary...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops' remains, after it was revealed that a crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and animal cremations. ... Defense Secretary Robert Gates believed the earlier situation was...
The revelation came to light when an Army officer who works at the Pentagon traveled to Delaware on Thursday to attend the cremation of a military comrade. ... Offended to discover that the facility was labeled as a ''pet crematory'', the officer sent an e-mail late...
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review of the handling of the remains of US war dead late on Friday and apologised after learn ... ing that some were cremated in a commercial facility that also cremates pets, the Pentagon said. Pentagon press...
WASHINGTON | The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.
Since 2001, the U.S. military has cremated the remains of approximately 200 service members at Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service, a Delaware facility that primarily cremates pets. The practice was stopped yesterday, as the Washington Post reports: The revelation came to light when an Army...
From The Washington Post By Ann Scott Tyson The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the...
The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement. ... (Excerpt) Read...
The Pentagon has ended the practice of cremating the remains of soldiers killed in Iraq at a Delaware facility that also cremated pets, sources say. ... The U.S. military banned the use of pet crematories for human remains of soldiers, The Washington Post reported...
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has ended the practice of cremating the remains of soldiers killed in Iraq at a Delaware facility that also cremated pets, sources say. ... The U.S. military banned the use of pet crematories for human remains of soldiers, The...
A REVIEW is underway after the remains of some US soldiers killed in war were cremated at a facility that also disposes of pets. ... From correspondents in Washington US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a review of the handling of the remains of US war dead...
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