Three more “Unknown Soldiers”

We thought the days of the “Unknown Soldiers” at Arlington wereover. There’s a mass grave in the garden near the Lee Mansion which overlooks the city of Washington with more than 200 Confederate soldiers interred and of course, the monument next to the Amphitheater. But now, there are three sets of unidentified remains at Arlington, according to the Washington Post;

Criminal investigators looking into how eight sets of cremated remains ended up crowding a single grave have concluded that three of them are unidentifiable – not because of the brutality of combat, but because of actions at the cemetery.

Of course, the solution to the problem for Kathryn Condon, the new superintendent at Arlington, is make excuses for her predecessors and to spend more money to punish tax payers.

It is boosting its staff from 102 employees to 159, hiring additional funeral representatives, technology experts and ground crew members. It is buying more burial and landscaping equipment, such as hand-held tampers to level graves, which previously had been done with backhoes, she said.

“They didn’t have the proper equipment to do the job really to the standard they needed to do,” Condon said.

I don’t know how backhoes are to blame for mixing up graves.

Yeah, here’s what you should do, Kathryn; those two who screwed this up so bad under their “leadership” should be called back to duty and straighten the problem out. And take their retirement pay from them. Then they can worry about where their remains will be buried.

Category: Veterans Issues