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Since 2023, headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery have been inscribed on the sprawling, landscaped burial ...
As for the top burial site respondents want to visit for Memorial Day, Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia took the crown ...
SAN ANTONIO — The Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to continue hosting Veterans Day ceremonies at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery after hearing out community concerns. U.S. Rep.
"By discontinuing this ceremony at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, we fail to adequately ... marked with a monument inscribed “To the Unknown Dead.” Fourteen Medal of Honor recipients ...
SAN ANTONIO – The Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery honored fallen servicemen and women on Monday with a Memorial Day ceremony. The ceremony included a wreath laying, a moment of silence ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday will formally sign a proclamation expanding two national monuments in California and protecting nearly 120,000 acres of land, according to the White House. The ...
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 ...
In a solemn ceremony Thursday at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Department of Veterans Affairs and Army officials gathered with relatives of the soldiers, members of the ...
The graves of 17 Black soldiers who were hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. military history will now rest under new gravestones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. The Department of ...
In San Antonio on Thursday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, a memorial ceremony added new headstones for the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry, fully honoring their service.
AUSTIN, Texas — New headstones for 17 Black soldiers sentenced to death more than a century ago were unveiled Thursday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio after the Army deemed ...
Credit: Todd Vician for the San Antonio Report When volunteers placed U.S. flags at more than 130,000 gravesites this weekend at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, they also saw thousands of neatly ...