Arlington Graves Mismarked

The New York Times reports that many of the graves in the Arlington cemetery are incorrectly identified:

WASHINGTON — The remains in more than 200 graves at Arlington National Cemetery may be incorrectly identified, the secretary of the Army said Thursday, as he announced a shake-up in the cemetery’s management. In some cases, remains were found in graves listed as empty, and occupied grave sites were unmarked.

“That all ends today,” Secretary John McHugh said at a Pentagon news conference.

An Army report listed dozens of deficiencies in the day-to-day management of the cemetery, including an outdated recordkeeping system that may have contributed to many of the errors at Arlington, which was first designated for military burials in 1864. An inspection, which began in August 2009, found problems at 211 sites.

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