They already should have been, but for the incompetence that was at the helm!!!!
September 28, 2010 - The secretary of the Army would have to provide Congress with a full accounting of all of the more than 320,000 grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery under a Senate bill introduced Tuesday.Myself and many many others have voiced what should be done, turn Arlington over to the VA and the U.S. National Cemeteries
The bill, which comes on the heels of a growing scandal at the nation's most hallowed military burial ground, would also require a review of the contracts issued to digitize the cemetery's paper records and a study to determine whether the cemetery should be transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In a statement, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who introduced the legislation with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), said the bill would "make sure that those responsible for managing the cemetery are being held accountable and meeting the highest standards when it comes to ensuring the proper burials of America's fallen men and women."
The cemetery's top two leaders - former superintendent John C. Metzler Jr. and his deputy, Thurman Higginbotham - were ousted in June but allowed to retire with full benefits after an Army inspector general's report found more than 200 unmarked or mislabeled graves in three of the cemetery's 70 sections. It also found that at least four burial urns had been dug up and dumped in a dirt pile. {read rest}
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