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They went in and looked and found in three sections several hundred graves. how many sections are at arlington? >> 70 sections. >> weve done three out of 70? >> thats correct. >> theres no indication we dont have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didnt talk about it -- and do you honestly believe, mr. metsler, if you had come to congress and said, we have a crisis, we immediately need resources and manpower so we can were afraid w...

Somebody wrote an article about it and finally the army woke up and realized nobody was paying attention at arlington. they went in and looked and found in three sections several hundred graves. how many sections are at arlington? >> 70 sections. >> weve done three out of 70? >> thats correct. >> theres no indication we dont have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didnt talk about it -- and do you honestly believe, mr. metsler, if ...

Would you disagree with that? >> im not sure of the date. but if its in the report, that was probably what was looked at. im not sure. >> mr. metsler, you testified earlier when i was asking you, that five years ago, you were aware of urns with cremated remains in them that had been found in the fill area of the cemetery. >> thats correct. >> so at that moment, you knew that someones remains had been dug up and dumped somewhere in the cemetery without the people knowing they were digging up rema...

Thousands. the cemeterys former superintendent, john metsler, along with his deputy, thurman higinbotham appearing before a congressional subcommittee, forced to retire after army investigators discovered hundreds of graves were mismarked. the army inspector generals office finding metsler failed to ensure proper burials and failed to respond after the unmarked graves were discovered. investigations by salon.com and the washington post discovering more record-keeping errors, missing headstones, ...

Whistle. somebody wrote an article about it and finally the army woke up and realized nobody was paying attention at arlington. they went in and looked and found in three sections several hundred graves. how many sections are at arlington? >> 70 sections. >> weve done three out of 70? >> thats correct. >> theres no indication we dont have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didnt talk about it -- and do you honestly believe, mr. met...

>> im not sure of the date. but if its in the report, that was probably what was looked at. im not sure. >> mr. metsler, you testified earlier when i was asking you, that five years ago, you were aware of urns with cremated remains in them that had been found in the fill area of the cemetery. >> thats correct. >> so at that moment, you knew that someones remains had been dug up and dumped somewhere in the cemetery without the people knowing they were digging up remains and not realizing they wer...

Would you disagree with that? >> im not sure of the date. but if its in the report, that was probably what was looked at. im not sure. >> mr. metsler, you testified earlier when i was asking you, that five years ago, you were aware of urns with cremated remains in them that had been found in the fill area of the cemetery. >> thats correct. >> so at that moment, you knew that someones remains had been dug up and dumped somewhere in the cemetery without the people knowing they were digging up rema...

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Catch a break there either. for the last few days, we have told you about dumped tombstones, mismarked graves, maps that mislead people looking for their fallen loved ones. the problem is worse than we thought, too. a senate panel claims as many as 6600 graves at arlington may be marked wrong. not marked at all or mislabeled on the cemetery maps. earlier the army thought that that number was more like 200. so how could this happen? accountability time. senators grilled arlingtons retired superin...

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