Two years after the country’s most famous national cemetery was slammed as a national disgrace over bad record-keeping, misidentified remains and headstones placed at empty graves, Arlington National Cemetery has digitized all its burial records and made them available to the public via a smartphone app.
Cemetery visitors may now find a grave by including information about a buried individual or simply clicking a location on the screen map. A few more clicks will display photos of the front and back of headstones and monuments, plot out a path to the destination grave and indicate how long it will take to walk to it.
“The problems of the past are now resolved. We’re moving forward,” Arlington spokeswoman Jennifer Lynch said on Monday.
Several Arlington officials attended a press conference Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army annual conference in Washington to announce the new app.