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The dead from Malaysian airliner arrive in Holland

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 24 Jul 2014 09:03

Thanks BillinOz - when I posted I was not aware that the bodies were from the various nations who lost citizens in this horrific incident.

LadyScozz - thanks for that link, it was a very moving tribute <3

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 24 Jul 2014 03:05

http://www.9news.com.au/World/2014/07/24/00/19/Planes-touch-down-in-the-Netherlands

I weep.

<3

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 24 Jul 2014 01:44

It's terrible that it may in some cases take months to ascertain identity etc (as mentioned on the news earlier) Those grieving families will have to wait and suffer while the tests continue. Probably things were made worse by the appalling treatment of the bodies in the first instance.

It must be a horrible job but has to be done and the right bodies passed to the right families, even if it takes a bit longer, rather than any awful errors be made.

Well done Holland and Australia for their caring behaviou


Lizx

Von

Von Report 24 Jul 2014 00:23

OFITG
I couldn't agree more with what you have said.

The Dutch are to be congratulated on the way they have conducted themselves and the dignity they have afforded the victims.
A complete contrast with the perpetrators of this terrible atrocity.

Thinking of all the families involved <3

BillinOz

BillinOz Report 24 Jul 2014 00:15

The bodies were from All the nations in the death toll ,
delivered by Australian C17. and Netherlands Air Force.
They will be delivered 40 at a time, and DNAd by experts from all countries,
and delivered to their Families, worldwide.

Bill in Oz

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 23 Jul 2014 16:40

RIP

<3

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 23 Jul 2014 16:32

I have been watching the ceremony of the bodies of those from The Netherlands, killed in the Malaysian Airliner shot down over the Ukraine, being brought home.

How welcome it was to see them being treated with the dignity and utmost respect, something they deserve, but sadly something not shown to them at the crash site.

May you all R.I.P. now that you are back on your home soil <3

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"