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Tablet To War Dead Upside Down, Capitol Discovers After 29 YearsSpecial to 7 hi S'ewt,AUSTIN, Oct. 11 —Twenty yearsafter its unveiling, a bronze memorial tablet to officers who lost their live* in the Mexican war has been found to Have been placed on the capitol walls upside down.The conventional burning taperssend their bronze flames merrilystraight down The heavy base of the eight-foot tablet projects above its top and the graceful peak of the slab hangs downward,It will have to stay that way, because all the lettering of names and titles was put on upside down.j The tablet contains titles and i names of all the officers who diedtin the Mexican war. If any pri* \atea were killed, they didn’t getmentioned.Contrast of this tablet with the bronze tablets that are being in-; stalled in the stadium honoring World war dead is fitW, diet no rank is mentioned in connection j with the name of any Texan who’ died In the World war. That fol lows the practice of the America? Legion and other World war vet* j | erns’ organizations, in prohibiting reference to rank during the fir.
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 12, 1930
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