Army probes report of mishandled casket

[Earth_First]

November 30, 2006 7:17 pm — The U.S. Army today is looking into the handling of a soldier's casket at the Greater Rochester International Airport, after a witness last month said she saw the casket put in a baggage cart with other luggage.

Northwest Airlines, on which the casket was flown, said in a statement tonight that a military escort stood at attention as three airline agents transferred the casket from the aircraft to an empty cart, then closed the privacy curtains. Northwest said it complied with all military and airline procedures.

"We are looking into the circumstances now," Army spokesman Lt. Col. Kevin Arata said in an email statement. "The Army is always concerned with treating all of our fallen comrades' remains with the utmost dignity and respect."

"It looked awful, just awful," Cynthia Hoag, 56, of Dansville, Livingston County, said Wednesday. "Maybe we made too much out of it, but it was very disturbing to us. If that had been my son, I would have been very upset."

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[Stargazer99]

1. What else do you expect out of a corporation? Humanity or compassion?

It all rolls down to the bottom line. I'll bet that soldier was of the lower income class. The poor have very little money to stir things up. A man gives up his life for his country and this is the way our government and corporations treat him. How do we raise hell about this?