More Scandal At Arlington Cemetery?

One of the headstones is worn and faded but offers some clues, including that its owner might have been a Navy captain. (Gerald Martineau/the Washington Post)

Arlington National Cemetery Headstones Found Lining Stream Bed -- Washington Post

Several mud-caked headstones line the banks of a small stream at Arlington National Cemetery, the country's most venerated burial ground. Farther upstream in a wooded area, a few others lie submerged with the rocks that line the stream bed.

On Wednesday, after The Washington Post alerted the cemetery to their presence, officials there said they were shocked to find the gravestones lying in the muck near a maintenance yard. Already under fire in recent days for more than 200 unmarked or misidentified graves and a chaotic and dysfunctional management system, cemetery officials vowed to investigate the headstones along the stream and take "immediate corrective action," said Kaitlin Horst, a cemetery spokeswoman.

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My Comment: Our fallen soldiers deserve better than this. The thing that comes to my mind is that if this can happen at Arlington .... what is happening at the other military cemeteries across the U.S.? My gut tells me that what has happened at Arlington is not an aberration.