A woman at Jakarta s Halim Perdanakusuma military airport, where the doomed flight took off, fainted as she watched men unload the first two body bags from a helicopter.
Armand MacKenzie of the Innu Nation of eastern Canada, said today, 'In Canada, I hope that the words "highest attainable standards of health" mean more than sending body bags to Indigenous First Nations communities.
Sheriff's patrol cars, fire trucks and ambulances with lights flashing surrounded the wreckage while rescue crews went to work pulling two teenagers out and shoving a third in a body bag.
George Stone's latest installation evoked a scene from a morgue: ten gun-metal gray latex sheets, doubled to form what looked like body bags, lay stretched out on a concrete floor.
A COMPANY has sued New York for the cost of 100,000 body bags it said the city hastily ordered after the September 11 terror attacks but later realised were not needed.
In this gritty and partially fictionalized memoir of a conflict so unlike their fathers' war, Herr (who had a hand in the scripts for Platoon and Apocalypse Now) has assembled these dispatches and fashioned a surrealistic account of the tedium, drugs, and body bags, and offers readers an encounter with the war that dislodged this generation.