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...body was searched and all personal effects were secured, but no inventory was taken. A ruled tablet served as Graves Registration Form No. 1. Both identification tags were left with the body until it was ready to be placed into a grave. One tag stayed with the body after burial, and the other was attached to the stake that served as a grave marker. Today a small monument at the Les Forges crossroads marks the cemetery location and records that 6,000 Allied troops from the Normandy invasion were buried there. Later, the bodies were moved to permanent cemeteries...
...displayed victims naked in public without honor. They subjected victims to the vengeful feelings of a crowd, allowing them to take pleasure in pain and breach the bonds of civility. They extended suffering for days. They left victims as food for wild beasts and birds, denying them a proper burial. Crucifixion was the practice of savages and tyrants who did not respect...
...what is just, not what serves one?s interests. It encourages maturity, civility and honor. It limits pain to what the law requires. It does not add humiliation to suffering, nakedness to pain. And if life must be taken, one returns the body swiftly to families for the proper burial rituals...
...their dead?nine in total, six from the Krue Se mosque and three who allegedly raided a checkpoint in Mae Lan?returned in the back of pickup trucks. The corpses, wrapped in bloodstained sheets, were laid out on the tiled floor at the mosque entrance to be readied for burial. The villagers crowded the forecourt to watch as the sheets were lifted one by one to reveal the bullet-riddled bodies. While children as young as six years old looked on, female relatives kneeled and gently kissed the bloodied foreheads of their dead. Among the menfolk, the talk...
...Still, it's a message worth spreading, Singh reckons, so he's planning to return to the theme of religious fundamentalism in his next book, a collection of short stories. It's unlikely to be his last work. In a scene from Burial at Sea, a colleague advises the young Bhagwan on how to pen a book about his country: "Write a long love letter of many chapters to India as if it were your sweetheart." Khushwant Singh has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with India?and he seems intent on shooting off a few more bittersweet love letters...