Posts Tagged ‘corpse abuse’
Year End Look at Arlington Cemetery’s Future
28, Dec 2010Restoring Arlington Cemetery Washington Post Editorial Board (December 27, 2010) What does it mean to restore accountability in the nation’s cemetery? This is a good, succinct Washington Post Editorial on everything that’s gone wrong at Arlington Cemetery. This last year has been particularly bad for Arlington Cemetery and you can read Death Ref’s coverage of [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun Follow-Up
30, Oct 2010Portrait Emerges of Woman Whose Mummified Body was Found in Car Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (October 28, 2010) Last week I wrote about a California news item which involved the police finding a dead body in a car. A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times did a follow-up piece and as I suspected [...]
And the Corpse Rides Shotgun
22, Oct 2010Woman Drove Around With Mummified Body Salvador Hernandez and Greg Hardesty, The Orange County Register (October 22, 2010) I am a little surprised that only a few people sent me this recent decomposing-dead-body-in-the-news article. Like so many of the other dead body stories on Death Ref this particular California tale is both macabre and sad. [...]
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