Arlington National Cemetery is trying to account for $12 million — about a quarter of its current annual budget — that was allocated to the cemetery between 2004 and 2010 but apparently was never spent. Read full article > >

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About one in four grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington may contain discrepancies, a US Army report to Congress finds.

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Errors riddle Arlington cemetery

After a year-long effort to account for every grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Army officials said Thursday that there might be problems, some as minor as typographical errors in paper records, with nearly 65,000 sites — or one-quarter of the graves at the nation’s most prominent military burial ground. Read full article > >

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Problems possible with nearly 65,000 Arlington graves, report says

Small record-keeping errors might exist concerning tens of thousands of graves at Arlington National Cemetery, but a review of every plot has not found any additional cases of people being buried in the wrong places, cemetery officials said Friday. The grave-by-grave accounting of the country’s preeminent military burial ground was mandated by Congress last year after an Army investigation found widespread problems at the 150-year-old cemetery, including misidentified and misplaced remains, urns that had been unearthed and dumped in a dirt pile, and millions of dollars wasted on botched contracts. Read full article > >

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No more burial mistakes at Arlington Cemetery found so far

Once upon a time, it was the Day of the Dead, but now it is the days of the dead. A reverent, rural tradition of making picnics at the cemetery, of building a home altar of marigolds for the dearly departed? That continues. But like Halloween in the United States, Dia de los Muertes in Mexico has become a bit of a free-for-all, a five-day weekend with parties and drinking, a smash-up where dad dons a Spider Man costume and mom dresses up as a naughty French maid — to honor their ancestors, of course. It’s more pop, more pagan and more commercial. There’s even some trick or treating, which would have been unheard of a decade ago. Read full article > >

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Fantastic terrifying creatures arise in heart of Mexico

Once upon a time, it was the Day of the Dead, but now it is the days of the dead. A reverent, rural tradition of making picnics at the cemetery, of building a home altar of marigolds for the dearly departed? That continues. But like Halloween in the United States, Dia de los Muertes in Mexico has become a bit of a free-for-all, a five-day weekend with parties and drinking, a smash-up where dad dons a Spider Man costume and mom dresses up as a naughty French maid — to honor their ancestors, of course. It’s more pop, more pagan and more commercial. There’s even some trick or treating, which would have been unheard of a decade ago. Read full article > >

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Fantastic terrifying creatures arise in heart of Mexico

A war memorial at Belfast City Cemetery is damaged in an attack believed to have happened at the weekend.

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Cemetery war memorial vandalised

Soldiers from the Alpha Company plant American flags by headstones at the Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery, and cadets from Liberty High School’s JROTC place over 8,000 flags on graves at Culpeper National Cemetery in honor of Memorial Day weekend. Read full article > >

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Flags placed at headstones for Memorial Day

The grave of Robert Selden Garnett, killed in Virginia in 1861, has been found in Green-Wood Cemetery, where a Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration is planned.

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City Room: Confederate General Buried Far From the Battlefield

A “suspect” discovery at Arlington National Cemetery has led to a criminal investigation into how eight sets of human remains ended up in a single grave at America’s most famous military burial ground.

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8 sets of remains found in single Arlington grave