The green logbook was kept on a table in the processing room of the potato factory, where the dead were brought in from the bloody streets of Fallujah. It had blue-lined pages and columns that Cheryl Ites drew with a ruler.
Usually there was a pen with the book that she or one of her “scribes” used to make the entries once each body pouch was opened and the corpse examined. Date delivered. Time. Organization of decedent. Name.
Often there was no identification, so an entry would say “insurgent unidentified” or “civilian unidentified.” Or if there wasn’t enough left of the person, it might say “unassociated portion.”