Sources: Scandals at Arlington Cemetery prompt firings

[The Straight Story]

Sources: Scandals at Arlington Cemetery prompt firings
In one case, body of one soldier was buried on top of another

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.

Army Secretary John McHugh is set to announce Thursday that he will replace Arlington National's superintendent, John Metzler, and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, after accusations of poor management and an investigation that Higgenbotham had illegally hacked into the computer files of a former Arlington employee.

Over the past couple of years, officials said, some of the 300,000 graves at Arlington were improperly marked and in some cases bodies were buried in the wrong graves.


In 2008, an Air Force master sergeant was buried on top of a staff sergeant already in the grave, but the error wasn't discovered until the widow of the first service member buried there complained to authorities that someone else's headstone had been placed on her husband's grave.

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. Awful, at so many levels.

It has to be a helluva management--but still. Sigh.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Disrespecting the war dead

It seems to be par for the course these days. I hope those two people never find work again.

:cry:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I better check my Mother's Grave's status

Because she is buried there....

What a mess.