A Lesson in History
At the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, located in San Antonio, Texas, is a small section containing the remains of World War II Prisoners of War. These were Germans and Italians captured by the United States during World War II. They died before the war ended. Not all of them are there, just the ones whose families never claimed their remains. We were told where they were located and went to see them. We were told, wrongly, that they had swastikas engraved on their tombstones. We found a section that contain 141 German and Italian POWs. There were 7 rows with 20 in each, and a last row with only one grave. Here are a couple of pictures:
The picture below is a little closer view:
A pastor was the one that told us this little known history tidbit about the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Although I have a vague memory of having heard it before. He also said that there were some Japanese POWs from World War II also. But we didn’t know where to look for them.
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