This is what the previous administration, congresses then and especially the DoD should have started and done, along with so much more. Especially as they started beating the drums to walk away from the original mission, and promises, in Afghanistan to invade and occupy an innocent country and the people of Iraq. Instead of what was found recently to be going on at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, following the earlier reports about the mismanagement at Arlington. They could have had the remains of parts of some soldiers bodies, somehow lost, that were killed in action, that they then cremated and dumped the ashes in land fills in Virginia, in those early years and when once found out are now buried at sea, during the past couple of years, instead placed in urns and given a proper place of rest and an Honorable place for family and country to visit!
Nov. 30, 2011 – Arlington National Cemetery began its first major construction project in nearly eight years today with a ground-breaking ceremony for a 20,000-niche columbarium that will extend the life of the cemetery’s inurnment space to 2024.
A columbarium is a structure that holds urns containing cremated remains.
Construction on the cemetery’s ninth columbarium begins in January, with completion expected in June 2013, said Army Col. Victoria Bruzese, the cemetery’s chief engineer. The new structure will dwarf the previous eight columbariums, she added, the largest of which contains 8,000 niches and the smallest 3,000.
"This will be 540 feet long, 116 feet wide, and at its highest elevation about 11 feet tall," Bruzese said following the ground-breaking. "We'll have more than 20,000 niches, which gives us the ability to have three to four inurnments within each niche -- service member, spouse, children -- so we're looking at more than 60,000 inurnments, so that's significant."
The new columbarium will be almost the length of two football fields. read more>>>
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