Report finds problems at multiple VA cemeteries
A review by the Department of Veterans Affairs has unearthed problems at several military cemeteries in the United States, according to an article in The Washington Post.
Prompted by recent revelations of burial mistakes at Arlington National Cemetery, the report assessed VA's handling of remains at cemeteries across the nation.
The Post article reported the VA's National Cemetery Administration found scores of instances of misplaced headstones and several cases of remains being interred in the wrong place.
Problems were discovered at national cemeteries in Texas, Ohio, New Mexico, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania, according to the cemetery administration's deputy undersecretary for field operations. The mistakes affected the remains not only of military veterans but family members who were buried in the same plot as their loved one.
The problems at Arlington National Cemetery led veterans groups and members of Congress to ask for a thorough review of burial practices there as well as at other cemeteries. VA officials have attributed some of the problems at Arlington to an out-dated record system and inattentiveness during renovations.
