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“Final Services – A Veteran Poem *Behind The Scenes*

When I was 17 I joined the Army as a Mortuary Affairs Specialist. Many people don’t realize that this position exists, or at the very least they don’t think about it often.

Mortuary Affairs (92M) is the second-oldest job in the military, second only to infantry. It deals with the assistance of autopsies of fallen soldiers, and of the processing of the personal effects (inventory of all of their…