美国阿灵顿公墓葬有2位美国总统和40多万名军人。（图片来源：路透社）
中国日报网4月23日电（严玉洁）据美国福克斯新闻网4月22日报道，美国阿灵顿国家公墓是2位美国总统和40多万名美国军人的安息之地，然而新披露的文件显示，这里也误葬了东南亚无名氏的遗骸。
据美国《星条旗报》报道，美国战俘与失踪人员（POW/MIA）内部文件称，陆军预备役飞行员、三级准尉威廉·史密斯的遗体在1999年被交给调查人员时，其中混杂了东南亚无名氏的遗骸，不过最终还是将两者分离开来，下葬到阿灵顿公墓的只有史密斯的遗骸。
但是，《星条旗报》从美军中心鉴定实验室（Central Identification Laboratory）获得的内部备忘录显示，东南亚无名氏的一些腿骨最终还是与史密斯的遗骸一起下葬。记录此事的该实验室人类学家吉南拒绝对此发表评论。
阿灵顿公墓的官员则表示，他们收到的是一个密封的棺材，完全是照章办事。
史密斯的儿子说，官方从来没有告知此事，他“感觉很糟糕”。
越战期间，史密斯在越南驾驶直升机时被炮火击中，去世时年仅23岁。
（编辑：周凤梅）
Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 400，000 servicemen and women， as well as two U.S. presidents. Newly uncovered documents， however， reveal that the remains of an indigenous Southeast Asian are also interred on its sprawling grounds.
Stars and Stripes， citing internal POW/MIA documents， reported that when the remains of Chief Warrant Officer 3 William Smith Jr. were turned over to investigators in Vietnam in 1999， they were mingled with remains of someone other than the Army Reserve pilot. Documents indicated that the unrelated remains had been identified and segregated from Smith’s and that only the pilot’s remains were sent to Arlington for burial. But an internal memo from the Central Identification Laboratory obtained by Stars and Stripes showed that wasn’t the case.
The fragment of a leg bone that should have been separated from Smith’s remains had been “inadvertently included，” laboratory anthropologist Gwen Guinan wrote in the memo， which was dated Sept. 20， 2000， 12 days after Smith’s burial.
the anthropologist wrote Stars and Stripes in an email. “Unfortunately， I am unable to comment.”
Arlington Cemetery officials， meanwhile， said they received a sealed casket and followed proper protocol.
Smith’s son， William Smith III， said his relatives were never informed of the mistake. “It doesn’t make me feel real good
after the 23-year-old warrant officer piloted a UH-1D Huey helicopter on a mission over South Vietnam when it was struck by enemy ground fire as it approached the My Tho River.
（原标题：大乌龙！美阿灵顿公墓误葬东南亚无名氏遗骸 - 中文国际 - 中国日报网）
