The quiet artistry of bringing the dead home from war
By Sarah Sicard
May 26, 09:00 PM
On a muggy Virginia morning, a petite soldier with dark brown hair adjusts her cover tightly on her head. Fifty yards away, in a bed of thick, unkempt grass around a burned out helicopter, a mannequin drenched in blood lies in wait.
The young soldier takes 10 steps before a man in a blue polo shirt yells, “Stop!”
“What did you do wrong?” he asks.
“I didn’t check for landmines,” the private replies, hands on her face.
“Right, now, how do we ensure that we don’t get blown up when we go to retrieve bodies?”
Another private shouts, “Sir, you low crawl over and tie a rope to the remains and flip them over from far away.”
“Exactly,” says the man in the blue shirt.
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