Folks, there are very good reasons why a body isn't shown to loved ones.

[Ilsa]

74. No, you are reading that into it.

My message is that there are professionals who deal with death every day, and that they are in a position to advise that under some circumstances, it might be better for the next of kin not to see the body. They may know if the body even looks like the person any more. They may have dealt with situations where they know it is the person, but after a traumatic death, the family won't accept that the body is the one named after seeing it. They may know that there is no way to predict who is likely to have post-viewing issues. They've been taught about emotional evidence of grief. Heck, my husband saw his father lying on the floor, dead, body intact, and he couldn't get rid of what he thought was a grotesque image for months.

I'm not privy to all of the conversations between the grief counselors and Mrs. Johnson, but I'm not going to fault them for recommending that she not view the body.

I'm angry and perplexed about what happened to the soldiers, why the WH delayed talking about it, why they are there, and especially how the Johnson family was treated throughout all of this, including the fake tweets impersonating her to try and discredit Wilson. I hate how the Congresswoman was treated, too, but she's a politician and knows how to deal with assholes. The Johnsons were a young family, not the son of a general or admiral, who would have appreciated appropriate acknowledgement of the family's sacrifice, but instead trump and kelly exacerbated this 24 year old widow's agony. Kelly treated her like a 55 year old war horse general with his advice to trump on what to say. The WH is a massively failing the military and the rest of us with their lies.