Guest Post – Memorial Day is trumpeted as a day “to honor the memory of America’s Fallen.” But rather than live up to that lofty goal, the Pentagon routinely falls short, lapsing into cosmetic rituals and empty rhetoric with volleys of ceremonial gunshots followed by volleys of commemorative clichés. In public speeches, editorials and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cemetery’
30 Jun
Army Correcting Problems at Arlington National Cemetery
Fixing incorrectly marked and improperly located graves and designing a new and effective management structure has been the priority at Arlington National Cemetery since the Army announced earlier this month it had been neglected for years. On Wednesday, Secretary of the Army John McHugh is expected to tell a House panel that the new management [...]
30 Jun
StoneMor Announces Acquisition of 8 Cemeteries and 5 Funeral Homes
StoneMor Partners L.P. today announced that it had acquired five cemeteries and five funeral homes in Indiana, two cemeteries in Ohio and one cemetery in Michigan. The cemeteries and funeral homes were purchased out of state court-appointed receiverships in Indiana and Michigan. StoneMor’s investment in this transaction, including advances to fund trust shortfalls, totaled approximately [...]
25 Jun
Army Finds Problems With Records System at Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery officials with limited expertise in federal contracting regulations and scant outside supervision improperly paid millions of dollars to companies that failed to create a digital database of the cemetery’s records. As a result, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery uses a flawed and antiquated paper system for tracking the whereabouts of thousands [...]
14 Jun
211 Graves Mishandled at Arlington Cemetery – Video
Potentially hundreds of American veterans and their family members who were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery were misidentified or mislocated, including some in an area that includes grave sites from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new Army investigation. The investigation culminated in a change in leadership at the historic [...]
9 Feb
Chicago Wins Cemetery Land for New O’Hare Runway
The City of Chicago on Monday was awarded possession of a 161-year-old cemetery that lies in the path of a future runway at O’Hare International Airport, and the relocation of about 1,200 graves could begin within weeks. DuPage County Judge Hollis Webster ordered that the title of the 5.3-acre St. Johannes Cemetery in Addison Township [...]
