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WASHINGTON - A number of scandals at Arlington National Cemetery, including one in which a service member's body was buried on top of another, cost the top two administrators their jobs, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Army Secretary John McHugh announced that Arlington National's superintendent, John Metzler, would be relieved of his duties and that his deputy, Thurman Higginbotham, would be placed on immediate administrative leave, pending further investigation.
McHugh told a Pentagon press conference that the investigation found 211 graves where there were problems of misidentification or improper record keeping. There also are claims that Higginbotham had illegally hacked into the computer files of a former Arlington employee.
200 graves misidentified at Arlington Cemetery - Military- msnbc.com
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Spuds
I know it is a sad thing for all the affected service memebers' families and heads should roll. But it also kinda puts focus(at least in my mind) of how many cemetaries around here have either misidentified remains or remains buried on top of one another.
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