
By Jim Hu
Published: Friday 24 December 2004
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"The Marines have a system of returning personal items to families and next-of-kin. The families receive the soldier's possessions at the time of death, .... All letters destined for mail are sent to their recipients, and received mail, including opened letters, are sent to their families."
Not really "all". Graves Division normally will remove any superfluous items that would cause embrassment (read: porn) before shipping personal items back to the family. A lot of times these items are also removed in the field.
When I was in the service it was recommended that we quitly leave a letter with the next of kin. These days it should include any passwords to accounts they want to be accessed by others. The fact is the deceased might not want anyone ever accessing these accounts and that should be respected.
"The Marines have a system of returning personal i...
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what, he didn't leave enough embarrassing shit in ...
michael saint grey
NTL have a similar policy to AOL's, when my father...
Sean McPoland
This confirms my judgement in not using AOL. Such ...
David D. Snider
Tough one. I'm inclined to think that access shoul...
Doug
Of course it's not "Privacy gone mad". Would you e...
Anonymous
To David Snyder,
We all have reasons to like (g...
Steve Farkas
What if information in the deceased persons' accou...
Anonymous
My daughter passed away on May 25, 2005. MSN told ...
Anonymous
When my daughter died in San Francisco in May 2005...
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My daughter passed away on May 25, 2005. MSN told ...
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