The explosions devastated the town of Texas City. Some reports say there wasn t a family in the town that didn t suffer in some way from the disaster, be it a family member s death, injury or even damage to their home or business. The fires would continue to burn for a full week and of the six hundred dead, sixty-three would never be identified. Most of these were too badly burned for anyone to recognize them. Their pallbearers were members of the veteran s organizations, labor unions and volunteer firemen.
Today there is a monument in honor of the dead.
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