We Can Remember Them for You Wholesale
Posted on | May 31, 2007
Fort Drum in New York is discontinuing individual memorial services for fallen soldiers in favor of a single monthly ceremony, the business of death having become routine.
May 31, 2007 - FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Army officials at Fort Drum say the military post will begin hosting monthly memorial services for 10th Mountain Division soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Previously, the upstate Army post held individual ceremonies for soldiers killed overseas. A Fort Drum spokesman says the change is due more to scheduling than an increase in combat deaths. When a member of the 10th Mountain Division is killed, the Army pays for a funeral as well as a service at Fort Drum for comrades and families. Fort Drum has lost nearly 140 soldiers since 2003.
Sounds like an economizing move, as well. I spent one of my last months in the Army on funeral detail, and find this story a distasteful sign of how disposable our troops have become.
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