DUers - John Metzler from the Arlington Ceremony

[malaise]

reminds you of which character from which movie. I watched him with Senator Claire McCaskill and only one person comes to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DopnNEfbsk

[Historic NY]

1. Its a shame..this guy just didn't want to modernize...I went looking yrs ago...

for some local soldier burials. I was brought into a room off the Arlington visitors center and they yanked out some faded out torn maps which they laid on the floor. The person then on his hands and knees scoured the maps until he found the location and wrote it down. This was back in 2003-4 I was amazed. I've databased and sorted all my towns records for over 200yrs. I developed a few simple databases for several large local cemeteries. Its not hard it just requires people entering the CORRECT data into a simple database. To even make it more simple I usually take the existing record card and duplicate it so there isn't anything unfamiliar. What kind of dedication is this when they don't even know who the people buried are. The military spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to id every soldier and the idiots at the premier national cemetery can't get it right. It a shame because its not expensive to do. I get volunteers to help and recheck the info before its sent out for fancy window dressing. Hell, they could have even had the Church of LDS organize them. The helped do the National Civil War databases. I feel sorry for the families that won't know who is where. A cemetery is for the lviing not the dead. Its a place to go to reflect or just visit.


"Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals." – Gladstone