Product/Service Memorials: Cemeterial & Mortuary Eq & Sup
Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded for this Product/Service from 2000 to 2008 $36,112,844
Number of Defense Contracts Awarded for this Product/Service from 2000 to 2008 278
2008 63/$12,382,866
2007 27/$2,050,285
2006 34/$2,060,564
2005 49/$8,721,657
2004 32/$4,500,570
2003 32/$3,398,494
2002 19/$1,505,923
2001 8/$720,510
2000 14/$771,975
http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/memorials_cemeterial_mortuary_eq_sup.asp?yr=07FAIRFAX, Va. — A man who says his father’s body was left for months to rot in the garage of a Falls Church funeral home is asking for a criminal investigation.
Richard Morgan Jr. of Harrisonburg hand-delivered a letter Monday to the office of Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond Morrogh, arguing that the National Funeral Home neglected the remains of his father, Maj. Richard Morgan, so badly that it constitutes a felony under state law.
“Placing my father’s corpse in a garage, unrefrigerated, cannot be characterized as anything but willful and intentional,” Morgan wrote in his letter, noting that defilement of a corpse is a felony under Virginia law.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/04/ap_veterans_bodies_040709/Ronald Federici's father, a retired Army colonel, had just died, and Federici wanted to escort his body to Demaine Funeral Home in Alexandria. But the driver who came to pick up the remains at the hospital said he wasn't going to Demaine, he was going to some other place.
Upset and confused, Federici followed the van driver, who pulled up to National Funeral Home in Falls Church. When the white garage door opened at the edge of a cemetery just off Lee Highway, Federici said, the foul odor of decomposition smacked him in the face. A body lay on a gurney in the garage near a rack holding coffins, and the walk-in cooler where his father was to be left was filled with exposed bodies.
"The stench was horrific," Federici, 53, said about the cooler. "Bodies were laying buck naked all over the place. There was no dignity whatsoever. It was disgusting, degrading and humiliating."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402976.html?hpid=topnews Yeah Bush, you sure honored the fallen and the men that had more courage in their toes than you ever had in your whole body.