A lot of these folks have been casketed for a long time, so we've only got bones to deal with, ... Evidently, it's not mandatory to place identification inside the casket, which was news to me. That's not helping.

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I don't think visual identification will be a possibility.

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I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.

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I'm assuming we'll find some up in the backwoods, pretty far from where they belong.

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We'll look for things like identifying marks such as tattoos and personal effects. We'll get DNA. We'll do X-rays if they have prostheses and we'll do fingerprints if we can.

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I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

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You may not have a dental record, but you may have a photo of your momma smiling, and that's helpful.

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It's not about numbers. I don't know how high that's going to go, ... Each death is enough. This is horrific.

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We were working for the living, and now we are working for the dead and the living. It's pretty tough, pulling out dead bodies.

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