Posts Tagged ‘Arlington Cemetery’
2 Bodies Found in Wrong Plots at Arlington Cemetery Christian Davenport, Washington Post (September 15, 2010) Arlington National Cemetery officials discovered that two people were buried in the wrong plots after exhuming their remains last month, an Army official confirmed Tuesday. More Details Emerge about Bodies Buried in Wrong Arlington Plots Christian Davenport, Washington Post [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Arlington Cemetery Problems Just Keep Coming
3, Aug 2010At Arlington Cemetery, Years of Problems Aaron C. Davis and Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post (July 26, 2010) From the graves of Supreme Court justices to a section for freed slaves, Arlington National Cemetery seems to have been egalitarian in its mistakes. Arlington Cemetery Problems were Documented in 2005 but Never Fixed Aaron C. [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Going Extreme to Fix Arlington Cemetery
1, Jul 2010At Arlington Cemetery, Army Ready for Drastic Measures Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post (July 1, 2010) The situation at Arlington National Cemetery keeps getting more and more complicated. I wrote last week about the mismanagement of Arlington’s burials and you can find that post here: Fixing Arlington Cemetery. To its eternal credit, the Washington [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Fixing Arlington Cemetery
21, Jun 2010In Debt to an Arlington Whistleblower Dana Milbank, The Washington Post (June, 20 2010) Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank published a column on the debacle at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. There is a reason that I am interested in Milbank’s column but before I explain why, I’ll let him bring [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Army: Bodies Misidentified at Arlington Cemetery Anne Flaherty and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press (June 10, 2010) This is a breaking story which I just got from the Washington Post via the Associated Press. In short, an investigation at the Arlington National Cemetery has revealed that despite strict protocol for US military funerals and burial, the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Cemeteries
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers