1. Cemetery officials allowed only those who were invited to enter the grounds. 2. However, cemetery officials said they will not be able to leave the stone in the cemetery. 3. Nine of the remaining waivers were under scrutiny by the House Veterans Committee because West had granted them after cemetery officials or Army staff lawyers had oppposed them. 4. Others decided to let the dead remain because cemetery officials assured them the mound was stable. 5. One exception is Walter Armanini, a former cemetery official from Milan who was sentenced to five years and seven months on charges of accepting bribes for grave sites. 6. Perfetto found that for years, some cemetery officials appeared to be embezzling money from trust funds, taking illegal loans, even paying personal mortgages with cemetery funds. 7. Smith all but says that cemetery officials are crying wolf, insisting that Arlington can easily grow. 8. The family watched in horror, and then argued for about two hours with cemetery officials, saying they had asked for side-by-side graves. 9. This resurgence in the use of grave goods, a tradition since ancient times, is creating a quandary for modern cemetery officials. 10. To cemetery officials like Meg Winslow, curator of the historic Mount Auburn cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., Casamassima is no gallant protector. |
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