ARLINGTON , Va. — When the remains of a Vietnam War soldier buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified in 1998 using DNA, Pentagon officials proudly said that the days of interring service members as “Unknown” could well be over.
But now, for the first time in decades, the cemetery has multiple “unknowns” to bury — and it has itself to blame.
Criminal investigators looking into how eight sets of cremated remains ended up a single grave have concluded that three of them are unidentifiable — not because of the brutality of combat, but because of actions at the cemetery.
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