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veterans memorial. rene is standing by. >> reporter: good morning. we are here at the u.s. marine corps war memorial. we have been here all morning. its a stunning memorial to see in person. we have seen parents bringing their children here, and we have seen veterans themselves here, just taking a moment, a moment of silence to remember or remember those who have fallen and who have died for our country, and this memorial is right outside of arlington national cemetery, and we spoke to...

mentioned, one of the largest sports organizations, nonprofits in the country. this investigation started after two men came forward to espns outside the lines, saying that they had been sexually abused by dod back in the 1980s when they were teen agers. both now grown men say they decided to come forward because of the sex abuse scandals that we have seen play out at penn state and syracuse universities. now, one of the men decided to speak anonymously to espn and ralph west spoke on ...

Ensuring that their final resting place is recorded and preserved for those who care to honor them. >> a lot of good people buried here unfortunately are very young. not much older than me. same age as my brother. like at their graves and i think of them. >> in the wake of scandalous revelations that the cemetery manages managed and remains found in the wrong gafs. he began photographing the front and back of each head joan last year. spread sheets and online database to document each grave in s...

Been under fire for keeping an antiquated record system of the roughly 300,000 men and women laid to rest here. >> were in the process of modernizing our record keeping. it will make it easier to do sites like rickys because its all going to be available on our website. >> reporter: for gilleland, his project took on a deeper meaning as he learned more about one fallen soldier. >> whats special about this head stone in particular is its the only one around it which has gold lettering. that means...

explosions rocked libyas capital city today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound in tripoli belonging to leader moammar gadhafi. nato confirmed and bombed a vehicle storage area in a second strike nearby. egypt reopened its border crossing into gaza that opens the door to the outside world for palestinians. officials say hundreds passed through the border town of raffa today. israel worries that terrorists will now ship arms across the border. the egyptian gover...

Says theyre going to do the best they can. i think it is interesting to note that evidence suggests that each one of these burial errors is a multiple error. in other words, you dig down and find somebody not supposed to be there, but their head stone is another place and you have to dig down to that person and so on and so on. what the army is faced with here is not just a scandal, but a massive scandal. it is possible they dont want to get into that. >> mark benjamin, thank you for joining us....

Think we would be in a much better position now than we are today. >> so not only are they sort of dancing around the issue about how they fix the mistakes they already have, have they fixed the system? is it clear this will never happen again? >> well, the army has implemented a system to make sure that the burials that are going on today are probably correct. in other words, the right head stone is going above the right grave today. the problem is that when the army went into fix this system, ...

Shoddy record keeping. in the new issue of "time," we hear from cemetery workers who talk about how deep the problem goes. one employee estimates one in ten graves has the wrong head stone. "time" magazine contributor mark benjamin wrote that article. and, so when you go to talk to the military authorities, what do they say theyre going to do about it? >> well, what they say theyre going to do is look at the paperwork that keeps track of who is buried where and try to figure out where people are...

Management team after they found more than 200 instances of unmarked graves, incorrect head stones and imimproper handling of remains. steve centanni at the pentagon tonight. days of reporting on this. how did this happen. >> shep, there are a couple of things that could have happened. over time the head stones get worn down by the weather. they get so smooth that you cant even read the names anymore. those might have been disposed of, discarded and replaced with new ones. at the same time somet...

Fund. and british media report the company have hired a team bankers to figure out exactly to what to sell. now to arlington national cemetery where the head stones of fallen heros have fallen in a creek bed submerged with overgrowth. serious mismanagement at that site. reporters found dozens of the head stones, officials at arlington say many were used to shore up the edge of the creek. the name on at least one of those marks is still legible. fox news has confirmed that this is the head stone ...