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Soldiers buried in wrong graves in Arlington Cemetery ‘shambles’
Submitted by Special on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 7:34pm.
America’s pantheon of war dead, the hallowed Arlington Cemetery on the edge of the capital, has mislaid more than 200 of its fallen heroes.
An investigation carried out by General Steven Whitcomb, Inspector-General of the US Army, revealed yesterday that the nation’s most sacred shrine was a shambles, where hundreds of graves are incorrectly marked.
Headstones have the wrong names, some graves recorded as empty have the remains of unidentified soldiers — and there have been cases of doubling up, with the body of one dead soldier dumped on another.
The record keeping has also been found wanting, with burials listed on paper files that go astray. The digital age has not yet reached Arlington National Cemetery.
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