Posted on 08/26/2011 9:52:00 AM PDT by shove_it
Night after night this summer, troops from the Army’s historic Old Guard have left their immaculately pressed dress blues, white gloves and shiny black boots at home to slip into Arlington National Cemetery in T-shirts and flip-flops to photograph each and every grave with an iPhone.
The sometimes eerie task to photograph more than 219,000 grave markers and the front of more than 43,000 sets of cremated remains in the columbarium is part of the Army’s effort to account for every grave and to update and fully digitize the cemetery’s maps. The Old Guard performs its work at night to escape the summer heat and to avoid interrupting funerals.
Last year a scandal over mismanagement at the nation’s most hallowed burial ground revealed unmarked and mismarked graves. Congress then mandated that the cemetery account for the graves of the more than 330,000 people interred in the cemetery.
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Kudos to the Old Guard.
My dad’s remains are there. WW2 infantry veteran.
So are my father’s... he’s in the Columbarium. Vietnam vet. I’ll let you know the next time I visit so that I can visit your Dad’s site, too.
God bless them.
Leave it to a professional volunteer military man who is proud of his country to do the job, right, the first time.
/Congress should be ashamed.
//If the president was a man, he would be too.
God Bless em I have an great great uncle from WWI buried there.
My grandfather & grandmother are buried there. Grandfather was a Rear Admiral & Congressional Medal of Honor earner.
A thanks goes out for those doing this!!
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