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The Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated new headstones Thursday for 17 Black soldiers who were wrongly blamed for a deadly Houston riot. The ceremony took place at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with some of the soldiers’ descendants in attendance.
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.
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 past.