“More than a century has passed since 110 Black soldiers stationed at Camp Logan were convicted of mutiny, murder, and assault in the 1917 Houston Riot, with 19 of them executed at Fort Sam Houston. Now those convictions have been overturned.”
“It can’t bring them back, but it gives them peace,” said Angela Holder, whose great-uncle, Cpl. Jesse Moore, was one of the executed soldiers. “Their souls are at peace.”
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I tend to find there are people that like symbolism, dislike it, and that are indifferent to it.
I’m with you in the second category, but I guess it brings the families of these folks some comfort or gets it into the history books… Fair enough