More on the VA Scandal. 28 Dead Veterans' Bodies Left in L.A. County Morgue Unburied for a Year.

By Rob Janicki

This is not a pleasant topic to report, but it is, or seems to be, part of the current VA debacle we are seeing around the county.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The bodies of 28 veterans at the L.A. County Morgue were finally moved Friday for burial to the Riverside National Cemetery.

CBS2/KCAL9 pressed the L.A. County Coroner’s Office Thursday to find out why the bodies had not yet received a proper burial after a source indicated there may have been as many as 60 veterans at the morgue for the past year and a half.The morgue says the bodies were unclaimed and they don’t know how long the veterans were there. 

This doesn't say much for the L.A. County Morgue administration and it may give the VA a bit of cover.  So, to be fair, the following should be noted.

The Veterans Administration says they were never notified the bodies were processed and ready to be buried. 

Somehow, someway, this situation was mishandled on multiple levels, which makes it all the more egregious, since there was no redundancy to following up the disposition of the deceased veterans at each and every level of contact with a governmental agency.

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