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Nazi Swastikas at U.S. Military Cemeteries Prompt Outrage
(Military Times) Leo Shane III - Officials from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation have called for the removal of gravestones bearing Nazi swastikas at a pair of federal veterans cemeteries. The Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Texas and the Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in Utah were both used to inter dozens of unclaimed remains of enemy troops following World War II. The grave markers of the foreign troops are engraved with a swastika in the center of an iron cross and an inscription in German which reads: "He died far from his home for the Fuhrer, people and fatherland." One retired senior officer who visits the grave of his Jewish grandfather at Fort Sam Houston said he only recently discovered the offensive grave markers. "This is the hallowed ground of people who gave their life for this country," he said. "To be buried next to people they fought displaying that symbol of hate is disgusting."