Tec and others. Go back and read the story slowly. If you look carefully, this situation is about mortuary waste and additional found remains of a service member after the burial was done.
They did not take the bodies of the fallen and toss them into a land fill. They sent to the family what they could, almost certainly non viewable remains for burial. Later clean up of the equipment and or battle sight revealed additional remains that were sent to Dover. Once the service member's remains had been released to the family for interment the family is asked if they want to be notified if any more, please don't be offended but I can't think of a different way to say this, bits / pieces of their soldier is found. In these cases the family said no. I can understand this as they have had the service and are trying to move on. They are not likely to want to have another service or open the grave to place the additional found remains into it.
The current process is to now to take that material and dump it at sea. I don't see how that is really any better but I suppose it sounds more comforting. Dumping stuff off the side of a ship really isn't any more dignified unless you are going to have a service and in this case there wouldn't be.
This article was a beautifully done attack job written to offend those who merely skim or just read the inflammatory headline. Hardly an example of ethical professional journalism IMO.
