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To the fallen who were buried there. >> mr. higinbotham, when did you first realize there were mismarked graves, unmarked graves, improperly marked graveç at arlington national cemetery? >> well, ma'am, having been a cemetery representative back during the vietnam war, doing funerals, it was always -- i can't pinpoint a date and time. but it was always to me conceptual that anything done by hand for 140-plus years, there has to be some errors somewhere. >> i'm not asking about conceptual or an isolated error. i'm asking you what year -- let me just ask the question this way. the documentation...

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...

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 supreme court justices as well as freed slaves. even as millions of dollars were spent to compute...

First realize there were mismarked graves, unmarked ç graves, improperly marked graves at arlington national cemetery? >> well, ma'am, having been a cemetery representative back during the vietnam war, doing funerals, it was always -- i can't pinpoint a date and time. but it was always to me conceptual that anything done by hand for 140-plus years, there has to be some errors somewhere. >> i'm not asking about conceptual or an isolated error. i'm asking you what year -- let me just ask the question this way. the documentation that we have developed for this hearing would indicate that you ha...