City Leaders End the Search for Fort Ward Graves
Community leaders learned yesterday that the City of Alexandria isn't recommending any money in the proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget to search for the remaining graves within Fort Ward Park. That news is surprising and most disappointing given the City's legal and moral responsibility to find all of the people that were buried in the park, not just the obvious ones. It appears that the Fort Ward Park & Museum Advisory Group, the Office of Historic Alexandria, City Manager, Mayor and Council have turned their heads away from those buried in the park and their descendants living within and nearby Alexandria. This decision, which is contrary to what leaders have said during the last six years of discussions, begs the question, why did the City Manager, Mayor and Council members decide to stop the search for graves?
The City Council is planning to approve the budget in May.
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