Senator: 6K graves at Arlington could be wrong - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – A Senate Democrat says that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be misidentified because managers there didn't do their job properly.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., spoke at a hearing Thursday, where the cemetery's former superintendent and deputy superintendent were scheduled to testify.
McCaskill says she believes that between 4,900 and 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps.
The estimate far exceeds one given by Army investigators last month that some 211 remains could be affected by the graves scandal.
This is pretty shocking and outrageous. From my brief search we've lost "only" about 6000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since '03, so these must be errors that have occurred throughout the years by different managers. Typical government bureaucrats half assing their jobs.
WASHINGTON – A Senate Democrat says that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be misidentified because managers there didn't do their job properly.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., spoke at a hearing Thursday, where the cemetery's former superintendent and deputy superintendent were scheduled to testify.
McCaskill says she believes that between 4,900 and 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps.
The estimate far exceeds one given by Army investigators last month that some 211 remains could be affected by the graves scandal.
This is pretty shocking and outrageous. From my brief search we've lost "only" about 6000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since '03, so these must be errors that have occurred throughout the years by different managers. Typical government bureaucrats half assing their jobs.
