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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. >> we've done three out of 70? >> that's correct. >> there's no indication we don't have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didn't 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 we're afraid we've lost bodies of our heroes, that we've lost the bodies of our fallen heroes, we've got cre...

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. >> we've done three out of 70? >> that's correct. >> there's no indication we don't have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didn't 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...

Would you disagree with that? >> i'm not sure of the date. but if it's in the report, that was probably what was looked at. i'm 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. >> that's correct. >> so at that moment, you knew that someone's remains had been dug up and dumped somewhere in the cemetery without the people knowing they were digging up remains and not realizing they were dumping a family member's remains in the fill area of the cemet...

Thousands. the cemetery's 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 general's 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, unidentified urns found in a dirt landfill. the mistakes affecting the final resting places of sup...

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. >> we've done three out of 70? >> that's correct. >> there's no indication we don't have the same problem in the other 67, none. so really what happened here is you all just decided if you didn't 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...