Image via WikipediaWith the start of the summer vacation season and the FIFA World Cup, it’s possible that you may have missed a shocking story that came to light recently.
A series of investigations have revealed that as many as 200 grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery are mismarked or unmarked after a review of nearly a third of the sections that presumably contain remains of soldiers.
A series of investigations have revealed that as many as 200 grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery are mismarked or unmarked after a review of nearly a third of the sections that presumably contain remains of soldiers.
The full Washington Post story by reporter Christian Davenport can be accessed at this link http://tinyurl.com/2eytf6y
The majority of the impacted remains are those of veterans who served from World War I through the Vietnam War. One example of the military mix-up cited in the story found that the remains of a Tennessee woman’s sister who served in the Air Force were buried directly above the remains of another veteran.
