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Since 2023, headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery have been inscribed on the sprawling, landscaped burial grounds.
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Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery marked a solemn, stripped-down version of Veterans Day on Monday. A brass quintet from the 323rd Army Band performed patriotic songs and the Robert G. Cole High ...
The MICC’s Field Directorate Office-Fort Sam Houston held a change of director ceremony today at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Buffalo Soldiers executed in 1917 receive new headstones recognizing their full identities at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
Among the neat rows of crisp white headstones spread across the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, where more than 180,000 service members are interred, 17 bore only a name and date of death. The ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday held a memorial ceremony dedicating new headstones for 17 World War I Black soldiers, who were wrongly court martialed back in 1917.
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 ...
SAN ANTONIO – Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery recently added 43 acres to continue veteran memorial care until at least 2045. The new space will accommodate nearly 24,000 pre-placed double ...
He died in 2017 and is buried at Sam Houston Cemetery in San Antonio. Many who spoke at the dedication described the general as a humble leader.
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is one of more than 140 national cemeteries located across the country that’s been impacted by the pandemic.