Oh, boy, what if you went to Arlington to, say, plant your Uncle Louie, a sailor who fought in the South Pacific in World War II, and, on opening the grave site, found it to be the final resting place for somebody else.
There is that old battle adage that ends with, ” … let God sort ‘em out.”
That’s not supposed to happen here. We’re supposed to sort them out first. And honor them. And honor their contributions to the freedoms we enjoy today.
Arlington National was created in 1864; the beautiful and historic cemetery has approximately 320,000 graves. There are identification problems at 211 sites at present. A multi-million dollar computer program has been a multi-million dollar fiasco.
Heads have rolled, including those belonging to Deputy Superintendent Thurman Higginbotham and Superintendent John C. Metzler, Jr.
