His father met him at the mortuary.
The writer retrieved Irene's ashes at the mortuary.
"I was at the mortuary from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.," he said.
Witnesses described how Smith would practise with a.303 rifle on corpses at the mortuary of Adelaide Hospital.
His words were at odds with the independent report, released on Tuesday, into failings at the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The documents were the latest disclosures about problems at the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the entry point for the nation's war dead.
The man at the mortuary showed her a fax with the cremation instructions sent by a Kevin McIntyre, her father.
General Schwartz's comments shifted some responsibility for the failures at the mortuary to top Pentagon officials, rather than just the Air Force, which oversees operations at Dover.
The new documents also shed light on problems at the mortuary that the Pentagon has only hinted at in the past.
"It has to look normal, like someone who is sleeping," said Petty Officer First Class Jennifer Howell, a Navy liaison at the mortuary who has a mortician's license.
