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Buckles' Daughter Not Taking 'No' for an Answer on Rotunda Honor
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The daughter of Frank Buckles is not giving up her campaign to see the last veteran of World War I lie in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, even though House and Senate leaders are seeking permission to stage an elaborate tribute at Arlington National Cemetery on the day he is to be buried there. Susannah Buckles Flanagan issued a lengthy explanation Saturday outlining why the request to have her father, who died a week ago Sunday at age 110, lie in honor in the Capitol was not unreasonable. Alex Ogle, AFP / Getty Images Frank Buckles, who died on Feb. 27, was the last ...
Army Launches Probe Into Arlington Grave Mixup
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- One of the country's largest combat veterans groups is up in arms over the latest mismanagement of remains at Arlington National Cemetery -- eight urns in a single grave. "This latest revelation demonstrates, yet again, that Arlington National Cemetery has suffered from a lack of oversight in its operations," Peter Gaytan, executive director of the American Legion in Washington, said in a statement to AOL News. Karen Bleier, AFP / Getty Images The Army is investigating the recent discovery of eight urns containing cremated remains found in a grave site marked "unknown" at ...
American Legion Weighs In on Arlington Scandal
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsFor an update of the American Legion's position, click here. WASHINGTON (July 2) -- The nation's largest veterans group weighed in today on the growing mismanagement scandal at Arlington National Cemetery, saying it may be time to strip the Army of responsibility for the hallowed burial ground. "I think common sense should prevail," Phil Riley, director of The American Legion's national security and foreign relations division, said in a statement to AOL News, indicating that it may be time for the Department of Veterans Affairs to take over the cemetery's operation. The organization has ...
Army Sacks 2 for National Cemetery's Burial Blunders
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 10) --The Army is enlisting a pair of former senators to oversee Arlington National Cemetery after a scathing review of America's "sacred ground" revealed more than 200 bodies had been misplaced or misidentified amid "dysfunctional management" by its two top administrators. The Army inspector general found that while cemetery staff conducted between 27 and 30 funerals a day "with dedication and to a high professional standard," they were hampered by "dysfunctional management, the lack of established policy and procedures and an overall unhealthy organizational climate," ...
On Memorial Day, Remember the Mothers, Children, Wives and Lovers Too
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe famous photograph of Mary McHugh prostrated on the grave of her late fiance, James Regan, was taken by photo journalist John Moore three years ago. It could have been yesterday. Arlington Cemetery's Section 60 is where military service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan lie. The place still makes the news -- the superintendent, John Metzler Jr., just resigned -- but for most Americans, Section 60 is not a place to talk of scandal or mismanagement. It's a place to remember, a place to mourn. On a Getty Images blog, John Moore wrote: You watch a mother kiss her son's tombstone. ...
Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery
By James Grady - Politics DailyOf all the chiseled stones standing silent watch over us in these uncivil and dangerous political times, this Memorial Day consider one modest white-marble slab on a green hillside at Arlington National Cemetery: Michael Joseph Mansfield PVT U.S. Marine Corps Mar 16 1903 Oct 5 2001 Private Mansfield fell not in battle like so many Americans, nor did he endure combat's scars. He lived to know his grandchildren and died at 98 in Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In these MySpace and "American Idol" days, he ordered that his headstone in Arlington disclose no more personal glory than that honor ...
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