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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Scandals At Arlington Cemetery Prompt Firings

In one case, body of one soldier was buried on top of another

WASHINGTON
- A number of scandals at Arlington National Cemetery, including one in which a service member's body was buried on top of another, are costing the top two administrators their jobs, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

Army Secretary John McHugh is set to announce Thursday that he will replace Arlington National's superintendent, John Metzler, and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, after accusations of poor management and an investigation that Higgenbotham had illegally hacked into the computer files of a former Arlington employee.

Over the past couple of years, officials said, some of the 300,000 graves at Arlington were improperly marked and in some cases bodies were buried in the wrong graves.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Never knew until I attended a funderal there that at Arlington, spouses are buried on top of each other in the same plot.