When this came up, I thought, what an honor to be able to do something for my country in a job I love to do.

The mass graves we excavated were Kurds. It's believed he did the same thing to the Shiites, too.

That's what's wonderful about taking each of these bones out of the mass graves and letting them speak and say, 'I was blindfolded and shot in the head. It's wonderful to be able to do that.

I have not seen the quantity and quality of the magnitude that I saw in Iraq. There are a few anthropologists in the world that have seen that - that much trauma in such a short period of time.

The other ladies were all buying them to baste their chickens or turkeys. I was buying it to use on my bones, to clean them.

I had no idea what the Medal of Honor was; I had never heard of it. I came from this little town in northern California. I was pretty naive.