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U.S. Highway 83 (US 83), dedicated as the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, is a U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Texas that begins at US 77 (Interstate 69E, I-69E) in Brownsville and follows the Rio Grande to Laredo, then heads north through Abilene to the Oklahoma state line north of Perryton, the seat of Ochiltree County.
Jun. 20—MINERAL WELLS — The National Vietnam War Museum began with a garden, a stark contrast to the story it tells inside a 20,000-square-foot chamber that will open Saturday in a 10 a.m ...
Fort Wolters U.S. Highway 180 gate in 2018. Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas.. The fort was originally named Camp Wolters in honor of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters, commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade of the National Guard, which used the area as a summer training ground. [1]
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
Jun. 27—MINERAL WELLS — Marine Corps veteran Raymond West earned two Purple Hearts during his tour of Vietnam in 1968-69, with gunshot wounds days apart. "I was at Khe Sanh, and I got shot in ...
Jul. 25—MINERAL WELLS — A labor of love one mile east of Mineral Wells is seeking public help to add a second phase to the National Vietnam War Museum. "Our museum will never accept money from ...
June 23, 1982 (200 E. Hubbard St. Mineral Wells: 2: First Presbyterian Church: First Presbyterian Church: June 14, 1979 (410 NW 2nd St. Mineral Wells: Demolished
Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park, Angel Fire, New Mexico; Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Olympia, Washington) Vietnam War Memorial, in Houston Texas [5] Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Park, Museum of Flight, Seattle; Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial, Portland, Oregon [6] The Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida, in Punta Gorda, FL [7] Vietnam War ...