Arlington National Cemetery superintendent John C. Metzler, right, and Army Undersecretary Nelson M. Ford, left, view a ceremonial casket used to carry cremated remains to the cemetery in Arlington, Va. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.
By Mark Bemjamin Salon
The superintendent and his deputy disagree on who knew what, and when, about misplaced remains at the cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery superintendent John Metzler has told Army investigators his deputy failed to inform him that workers discovered unknown, unmarked remains there in 2003 and kept it covered up for six years, according to a recently released Army investigation.
This is the second time Metzler has claimed his deputy failed to inform him of shocking burial screw-ups at the cemetery since Salon first started exposing the problems this past summer. This time, however, Metzler was under oath and his statement directly contradicts the sworn statement of the cemetery deputy superintendent, Thurman Higginbotham.
The flagrant contradictions mean that either Higginbotham repeatedly failed to inform his boss of serious burial errors at Arlington, or Metzler suffers from a poor memory, or Metzler is lying about what he knew and when he knew it.
Read more at Salon
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