Honor Kennedy By Fixing Arlington

(NEWSER) - Ted Kennedy will be buried at Arlington Cemetery near his brothers, MSNBC reports. Other details are firming up: His funeral will be Saturday at Mission Church in Boston, and a two-day wake will take place Thursday and Friday at the JFK Library and Museum, also in Boston. Kennedy will be buried somewhere near JFK's eternal flame gravesite, where Bobby also lies. More»

After that you have to watch while they dig up your relatives

(NEWSER) - If you’re looking forward to resting in peace someday, try not to kick it in Greece. The country is so drastically short on cemetery space that by law the dead may only rent graves, and then for a maximum of three years, reports Alex Mar of Slate , whose grandparents died there recently. After that, a family member must come watch as the body is exhumed and its bones collapsed into a container around the size of a shoebox. More»

Unidentified remains found in plot listed as vacant

(NEWSER) - Arlington National Cemetery has buried an unknown soldier for the first time since 1984 because of bungled paperwork. Workers burying a service member in Grave 449 in 2003 found human remains in the ground when paperwork had marked the plot as vacant. The plot was left unmarked until recently when a headstone marked "Unknown" went up. The move followed an investigation by Salon, which was tipped off by cemetery workers who say such mix-ups happen disturbingly often. More»

GOP senators McCain, Hatch join Dem stalwarts, Kennedy family at memorial

(NEWSER) - Politicians from both parties joined family and friends tonight in Boston, the Globe reports, to remember Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died Tuesday at 77. He was “the best ally you could have,” said Republican John McCain; GOP colleague Orrin Hatch said they were “like two fighting brothers.” Added Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry of the time since Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer last summer: “This time, these last months, were a gift for all of us.” More»

(AP) - Ted Kennedy's body is en route to Boston, where he will lie in repose at his slain brother's presidential library for 2 days of public visitation. The motorcade carrying the senator's body and members of his family departed the family compound on Cape Cod for the 70-mile trip to the state capital. Hundreds of people are lining the route of the motorcade, which will end at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. More»