A pair of headstones bearing Nazi swastikas were removed Wednesday from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery after an outcry that spurred a dramatic turnaround by Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilke ...

SAN ANTONIO – For almost anyone who has been there, it’s obvious by the rows of gleaming white marble headstones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery that it is a very unique burial ground. “The ...

SAN ANTONIO – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday held a memorial ceremony dedicating new headstones for 17 Black World War I soldiers, who were wrongly court-martialed back in 1917.

Cpl. Charles W. Baltimore's grave sits in a shady stretch of Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Nearby are the resting places of 16 other soldiers with whom he served — all of them Black and all of ...

The 3rd Battalion 24th Infantry Regiment was a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, Black enlisted men commanded by white officers. In 1917, they arrived in Houston to guard the construction of a new training ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --In dedicating new headstones for 17 Black World War I soldiers executed after Houston riots in 1917, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday it was righting a wrong of the ...

Cpl. Charles W. Baltimore's grave sits in a shady stretch of Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Nearby are the resting places of 16 other soldiers with whom he served — all of them Black and all of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs Thursday honored 17 Black soldiers unfairly tried and executed after the 1917 Houston riots. All 110 Black soldiers belonging to the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry ...