via http://ift.tt/1Ytokae:Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves:
I made it through this okay until the last story.
It says a lot about a society, what they do with their dead, and especially with the ones who died not in the bosom of family, not in the expected ways.
I saw the link on Twitter with the highlighted excerpt about the Times using drones to watch burials they had not been allowed in to see. I thought it was spying on a ritual or something, and was prepared to be indignant against the newspaper. But no. That is not what this is.

I made it through this okay until the last story.
It says a lot about a society, what they do with their dead, and especially with the ones who died not in the bosom of family, not in the expected ways.
I saw the link on Twitter with the highlighted excerpt about the Times using drones to watch burials they had not been allowed in to see. I thought it was spying on a ritual or something, and was prepared to be indignant against the newspaper. But no. That is not what this is.
