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Soldiers reinterred

The link below should take you to the heroic story of the efforts of a band of relic hunters in Northern Virginia to have the graves of six Massachusetts soldiers disinterred from unmarked graves near Centerville and have them buried with full military honors in their home state.

The task was made more difficult by two costly archeological surveys of the site both of which stated that there was nothing of "historical interest" on the property.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/09/civil_war_burial_draws_praise_and_cries_of_disrespect/?p1=MEWell_Pos5