"The four lawmakers sent the bipartisan request to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie in a letter Sunday. Tbey include the top Democrat and the top Republican on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Two tombstones among 140 for World War II POWs at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, are marked with a swastika inside a German cross and inscribed, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people, and fatherland.” Another gravestone in the military cemetery in Salt Lake City is marked with a swastika."
Lawmakers urge VA chief to remove swastika from German POW gravestones at military cemetery - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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