Field Trip - Fort Stanton

I read Everything is Tuberculous by Green and I had remembered that Fort Stanton had been home to a TB hospital. So, we went on Flag Day. This time my husband and son got to raise the flag.

I spent more time at the TB hospital that treated Merchant Marines with TB.  One of the points that John Green makes is that New Mexico became a state because so many white people came here to seek the cure. 

Fort Stanton has been many things Military Fort, TB Hospital, German Internment Camp to just to name a few. Recently a fire came close and burned the Gym and a few buildings in May. We also got tour the fort cemetery which neither my husband nor I had done before. We have visited the nearby cemetery where the Veterans cemetery is located and also where all the Merchant Marines were buried who died of TB.

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