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The Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy is an ongoing investigation by the United States Department of Defense into mismanagement, poor record-keeping, and other issues involving the burial and identification of U.S. servicemembers' graves at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Questions were raised in 2008, and the scandal peaked in the spring of 2010. ==Background== Arlington National Cemetery is a military cemetery in the United States established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House. Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's wars are interred in the cemetery, ranging from the Civil War through to the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, including veterans, their dependents, other casualties of war, several American presidents, famous sports legends, and various other dignitaries.〔 About 125 burials occurred at Arlington each week in 2010.〔 Allegations of mismanagement at Arlington Cemetery were first raised in 2008. The widow of a United States Army soldier complained that the wrong headstone was on her husband's grave.〔 A Pentagon investigation found that two servicemen had been buried in the same grave.〔〔〔〔 Cemetery workers had also buried the cremated remains of a servicemember in a grave which was already in use, but unmarked.〔〔 The cremation error was discovered in May 2008 and the remains buried in an unused grave.〔 However, Arlington National Cemetery officials may not have followed proper procedures in notifying the servicemember's next of kin about the reburial.〔 In November 2009, having learned of the cremated individual's reburial, United States Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh ordered an investigation by the Inspector General of the Army.〔 An article on Salon.com on July 16, 2009, began a year-long series of articles about problems at Arlington, which may have also prompted McHugh's actions.〔 A later ''Washington Post'' investigation found that the cemetery's administration had been subject to numerous US Army investigations over 20 years, but were unable to resolve recurring concerns with the management of the cemetery. One source of the problems appears to have been that overall oversight of the cemetery was shared by too many authorities, including the Military District of Washington, the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, the assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, and the cemetery superintendent.〔Davis, Aaron C., and Michael E. Ruane, "At Arlington Cemetery, Years Of Problems", ''Washington Post'', July 26, 2010, p. 1.〕 In one case in 2004, the cemetery's budget director, Mr. Smith, questioned the contracts related to digitizing burial records. He warned an official from the Office of Management and Budget, which temporarily halted spending on the contract. Soon after, Smith said he was harassed by his superiors and eventually suspended for three days without pay. Smith successfully appealed the suspension through his employees' union and retired with full benefits in 2007.〔Davenport, Christian, "(For Dover AFB mortuary whistleblowers, echoes of Arlington )", ''Washington Post'', 11 November 2011, p. 2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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