Arlington Cemetery Still Uses Index Cards for Recordkeeping

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 in Records Management News

“It’s 2010,” Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said, when informed Arling­ton National Ceme­tery was still using 3X5 cards to keep track of who was buried where. “We’re using 3X5 cards for the peo­ple who are the national heroes of this coun­try,” Brown said. “Here it is 2010. We’ve got all this tech­nol­ogy, and we’re still deal­ing in 3X5 cards. It’s a joke.” The inci­dent occurred at the July 29, 2010, hear­ing on the well-documented prob­lems at the ceme­tery in front of Home­land Secu­rity and Gov­ern­men­tal Affairs Committee’s Con­tract­ing Over­sight Subcommittee.

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