Sources: Scandals at Arlington Cemetery prompt firings

MessNBC ^ | Jim Miklaszewski

[TSgt]

WASHINGTON - A number of scandals at Arlington National Cemetery, including one in which a service member's body was buried on top of another, are costing the top two administrators their jobs, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

[TSgt]

A vile disgrace. These people should be shot.

[red tie]

Pretty sad when the government can’t even run a cemetery right!

[Ann Archy]

THE TOP GUY has been there 40 years and his FATHER had the ob before that! Ithink he makes $185,000.00 a YEAR PLUS BENEFITS!!!

[muawiyah]

One of the reasons more vets can't be buried at Arlington is the failure to conserve space ~ certainly being buried in a group grave has been the fate of vast numbers of American soldiers, so why is there a problem with the guys who simply managed to live longer?

Some of the more popular grave sites around the country have gone over entirely to the Columbarium system (cremation followed by having a box of your ashes placed in something that looks like a wall).

There are undoubtedly some out there who would object on the grounds of "respect" or "aesthetics", but even the Saints in Rome saw their bones piled up in catacombs!

Dead is dead!

[greedo]

including one in which a service member's body was buried on top of another

To make room for Ted Kennedy

[23 Everest]

THE TOP GUY has been there 40 years and his FATHER had the ob before that! Ithink he makes $185,000.00 a YEAR PLUS BENEFITS!!!

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This guy is actually retiring so that he can keep his benefits.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“Dead is dead!”

And corruption is corruption.

[Ann Archy]

very convenient~

[obama-facts]

Will Obama be fired for not showing up on Memorial Day?

[maine yankee]

The ‘Columbarium system’ has been greatly exbanded at Arlington.

The long wall along the highway (look to pentagon) is designed for this.

I agree top guys need to leave after investigations.

However, the guys on the ground in the park are highly dedicated. I’ve seen them in all kinds of weather doing an almost flawless job, time after time.

[BikerJoe]

Will Obama be fired for not showing up on Memorial Day?

As far as I can tell, he hasn't shown up (for work) any other day either, and he hasn't been fired yet.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Both Metzler and Higgenbotham have come under heavy criticism for not creating a computer database of gravesites. Records of the hundreds of thousands buried at Arlington National are still kept in paper files.

Paper files?

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

“To make room for Ted Kennedy “

Thanks for solving the mystery! They probably had to work hard to find enough space to fit him in.

[a fool in paradise]

Pretty sad when the government can’t even run a cemetery right!

"Not my job."

"Good enough for government work."

Someone flushed a bag labelled "anthrax" down the toilet yesterday at a government office. Same attitude.

[red tie]

"Someone flushed a bag labelled "anthrax" down the toilet yesterday at a government office. Same attitude."

Makes we wonder how I survived this long! ;-)

[greedo]

He tried to collaborate with the Soviets in 1983 to hurt President Reagan and America, so he should have been buried in a Russian military cemetery.

[shove_it]

According to the Marine Times article cited in the posted MSNBC article, a disgruntled ex-employee with 2.5 months of service and her lawyer have succeded in bringing down the top management of ANC in disgrace. Be sure to read the Marine Times article.

More than 300,000 people are buried in an area of 624 acres. The first soldier to be buried in Arlington was Private William Henry Christman of Pennsylvania on May 13, 1864. It should come as a surprise to nobody that some errors have occurred over the ages.

Salon.com (far left-wing site) made a stink about this last year in a series of articles I posted on FR here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294800/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

The MSNBC article bears remarkable resemblance to last year's Salon.com third installment in its assault on ANC:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/21/arlington_secrets/index.html

Consider the sources of this hit job.

[rlmorel]

My Dad and mom are both buried there.

Their remains were treated with nothing but utmost respect by everyone involved there, as were our families.

I have probably been back there a dozen times since then...the grounds look fine, my dad got a new headstone because the other one was defective in some way (maybe the black paint in the engraving didn’t persist, or there was a small chip, who knows)

As far as I am concerned, I have nothing but good things to say about them.

I view this as all BS, idiots at MSNBC and Salon as lefties trying to find a story to discredit anything that has anything to do with the military, because that is what they do.

If I went down there, and found someone buried over my mom and dad, I would politely ask to have the situation remedied. If they said to me the person buried over them was an active duty person killed in action, I would be amenable to having my parents reinterred or even placed in the columbarium.

As another poster said...they are dead. These are their remains, and I doubt my parents would argue about it either.

I think it is a smear job. That is my opinion, yours may vary.

[shove_it]

Well said, rlmorel, as usual.

[rlmorel]

Thanks, SI...:)