How we are failing our female veterans, TIME, 30 June 2010
Shiloh Morrison spent two months as a truck gunner in Iraq before transferring to Kuwait in 2007 to work at the mortuary that takes in every U.S. military casualty killed in theater. There were 423 on her watch. During her four months in the morgue, the Marine corporal went only one 24-hour period without helping prepare a body for autopsy. It was her job to give the commands to play taps and to salute those heading home for the last time. She calls them “fallen angels,” the troops whose caskets she draped with American flags before loading them onto a plane.
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