{"id":19916,"date":"2010-07-29T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19916"},"modified":"2010-07-29T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:51:20","slug":"former-arlington-official-accepts-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19916","title":{"rendered":"Former Arlington official accepts blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ARLINGTON_CEMETERY?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2010-07-29-11-02-56\">Associated Press and Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, John Metzler, the former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery for 19 years, has accepted &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for the shoddy record-keeping at the cemetery that may have mis-interred as many as 6600 veterans according to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Metzler&#8217;s former deputy Thurman Higginbotham made his boss&#8217; admission much more classy by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights &#8211; accepting none of the blame. I hope you spend a nice eternity getting your nuts roasted over a slow flame, Thurman.<\/p>\n<p>We wrote about the problems in Arlington in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19418\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19475\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19516\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press and Stars &#038; Stripes, John Metzler, the former superintendent of Arlington &hellip; <a title=\"Former Arlington official accepts blame\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19916\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Arlington official accepts blame<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}