Arlington Cemetery Missing $12 Million As Officials Are Still Locating Misplaced Graves
Army officials on Thursday announced that they are closer to identifying the remains of soldiers who were misplaced at Arlington National Cemetery, according to reports information is still being confirmed for 62,000 burial sites. Officials also announced that a new smart phone and computer GPS app will soon allow families and friends of fallen soldier to more quickly locate their tombstones exact location.
When the smart phone and computer GPS program rolls out maps will be made available through a front office kiosk after a user finds the relative or friend they wish to visit.
Along with their investigation Army officials say they have discovered more than 400,000 bodies are located on the premises, not the 330,000 originally believed to exist at Arlington.
When not searching for missing bodies officials are attempting to located nearly $12 million that had been appropriated to Arlington National Cemetery over the years but has went missing among a myriad of accounting problems on the Army level.
When pressed about the missing cash McCaskill promised to get to the bottom of the mix-up while noting:
“I don’t think there has been any indication of people walking away with money. It was just incompetence.”
In the meantime cemetery watchdog Sen. Clair McCaskill revealed:
“We’ve made a lot of progress in the last 18 months. We’re not there yet.”
McCaskill, D-Mo., took over the job of straightening out cemetery concerns after hundreds of graves were discovered to be unmarked, mislabeled or wrongly identified on maps available through the cemetery’s office.
At this time executive director of the Army National Cemeteries Program Kathryn Condon says 210,076 graves are confidently confirmed for veterans and family members to find while her group is cross-checking data for other graves located on the 624-acre property.
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