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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.



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