I am not familiar with Salon.com and it's reputation. Having not returned to ANC for 46 years, my frame of reference leaves off at JFK's funeral and the massive effort taken to maintain his grave site in an orderly fashion. The apparent lack of respect for Section 60 graves and the mismanagement asserted in these articles is troubling to me.
As a poster on another thread said - it appears there are more unknown soldiers buried their than we thought.
My parents are buried in section 68, which is one removed from section 60. Section 60 is one of the larger groups of plots, and I suspect there is a lot of traffic there, both from ceremonies for newly buried military personnel to the families making treks there whose loved ones have been buried within the last year or two.
I have seen the traffic through that area, and there are a lot of flowers, pictures, pieces of paper and such. I have seen some parts that were unsightly to me, but my guess is that they try to let people take advantage of the gray area between “no artifacts at all” to “we will remove the items when we get to them”. As a result, there are a lot of things heaped around there.
As for Salon, take my word on it. They are one of the most virulently leftist websites there are. The poster above had it right when he said they probably have blood on their hands.
Articles like this from people like those at Salon REALLY piss me off. They sound oh, so concerned, speaking with hushed voices how terrible it is, how someone should do something about this terrible injustice, but do everything in their power to ensure our men and women are spat upon both literally and figuratively when they come stateside. I detest them.
If God was interested in being JUST to those on earth, there would have been lightning bolts when Salon personnel entered the property.