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>> 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 cemetery. it was unmarked, just in ...

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...

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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 arlington's retired superintendent john metsler and his former number two guy higgenbottom. >> mr. metsler, if your staff is r...

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