Arlington Cemetery Acknowledges More Burial Errors -- Washington Post
Arlington National Cemetery officials recently discovered eight instances in which family members were buried at the same grave site but all the names were not added to the headstones marking the graves.
The cemetery’s management also estimated the cost of accounting for every one of the cemetery’s 330,000 graves — a task that they acknowledge may never be completed — to be $4.3 million.
The disclosure of the problems with the headstones came in an update Wednesday from Army Secretary John McHugh to Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who demanded a status report on the cemetery two weeks ago. It comes of the eve of a hearing by a House subcommittee that is expected to grill Army leaders about accountability at the cemetery.
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