Read full article: Ceremony at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery dedicates new headstones for 17 Black World War I soldiers The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday held a memorial ...

A group of volunteers helped a Texas-based nonprofit with dozens of roses in each hand, working to place them on as many ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- The gray ... of others in the expansive and historic cemetery. And there was one group for which Veterans Day marked a new chapter in their lives, as they were ...

SAN ANTONIO – Officials at Fort Sam Houston National ... to the cemetery grounds. No description found Cemetery director Frieda Robinson said contractors installed a new irrigation system ...

SAN ANTONIO — Two German WWII graves bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and replaced with new headstones. The pair of headstones had become a long ...

Since 2023, headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery have been inscribed on the sprawling, landscaped burial ...

New headstones show each soldier’s rank, unit and home state — a simple honor accorded to every other veteran buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. “Can you balance the scales by ...

A worker at Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in Texas prepares new headstones for the graves of Black service members executed following the 1917 Houston racial riots. (Defense Department) Veterans ...

After years of relaxing its rules, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery now is enforcing a ban on pinwheels, stuffed animals and other trinkets left at graves, in adherence to national policies.