Josh Marshall has a link to the Shelbyville Tennessee newspaper, the Times-Gazette. The news is gruesome to say the least:
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.There have been many veiled references to a tragically high death toll. This number exceeds all of them.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
Perhaps some enterprising reporter should talk to DMORT...if they haven't already. I get the sense that many people know the awful truth, but they don't think we can handle it.
