Sunday, February 25, 2024

The wrong way black soldiers are treated

 

The Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, looks like many others – headstones with name, rank, dates of birth and death, and wars fought. Headstones that each tell a story. Until you reach the row in which headstones, including one for Angela Holder's great-uncle, Cpl. Jesse Moore, are memorialized only by a date: December 11, 1917.

"Ours don't have a story; they just have name and date of death," said Holder. "




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The wrong way black soldiers are treated

  The Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, looks like many others – headstones with name, rank, dates of birth and d...