Jimmy Breslin writes
about the death line as the bodies come off of the planes to the
morgue at Dover Air Force Base. He describes very graphically the
haunting effect the body of one young soldier had on a veteran
medical examiner. [Note: The story is extremely graphic and may
be more than some readers can handle.]
She was not some shaking newcomer on her first job. She had
spent long months in the New York City medical examiner's office
working on what was left of people blown apart at the World Trade
Center. And she had worked on several cases here at Dover.
Soldiers with faces burned off. Or with little of their heads
left. Like this one.
A soldier is reflected in a pool of oil while
on patrol in Iraq
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