Former Arlington official accepts blame
According to the Associated Press and Stars & Stripes, John Metzler, the former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery for 19 years, has accepted “full responsibility” for the shoddy record-keeping at the cemetery that may have mis-interred as many as 6600 veterans according to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Of course, Metzler’s former deputy Thurman Higginbotham made his boss’ admission much more classy by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights – accepting none of the blame. I hope you spend a nice eternity getting your nuts roasted over a slow flame, Thurman.
We wrote about the problems in Arlington in June, here, here and here.
Category: Support the troops
Remember what the Allies did when they found the German concentration camps?
They made the Germans bury the dead bodies — by hand.
Just a thought for this individual.
I was assigned to the Military District of Washington’s IG office from 1986-1989, we inspected the bone yard twice during that period. At the time Higginbotham was the administrative/protocol officer. He was fucked up then, we gave them several ratings that showed they did not keep track of the bodies buried or where. He was also investigated several times for sexual harassment, but it could never be proven conclusively. He is one slick dude. Has an excuse for everything and accepts no blame on himself. It does not surprise me he took the fifth. He is just like Rangel and has dirt on some very powerful people in DC.
There have been situations, like this one, that have made me seriously rethink being buried. No one cares about the dead anymore, and damned if I want to be stacked on top of someone else in a common grave, buried out back, stacked in a shed, or end up in any of the other wacked-out locations bodies end up these days. I know I’ll be dead and won’t care, but it’s the idea that gives me the creeps.
The undertaker has lost my nickel — I’m going to be cremated. At least that way, I won’t be a bio-hazard.
This is one story I would rather not know about, some things are best not to know. Totally tarnishes what is sacred and holy.
These people need to be shot and eaten by rats.
This is an absolute disgrace to every veteran that has ever served. Past, present and future.