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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.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is an outdoor monument by Edward L. Hankey commemorating the more than 289,000 Texans who served in the Korean War, installed on the Texas State Capitol grounds, in Austin, Texas, United States. The memorial was erected in 1999 by the Texas Lone Star Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association.
Travis County is located in Central Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188.It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas.Its county seat and most populous city is Austin, [1] the state's capital.
Austin slightly trailed Raleigh, North Carolina, in the ranking, which took the top spot. Austin is one of the best cities in the U.S. for veterans to live in. See where it ranks
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
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US 290 / SH 71 / Southwest Parkway – Johnson City, Llano, Sunset Valley: Access to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Austin: 6.6: 10.6: Frontage Road: Southbound exit only: 7.5: 12.1: Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Highway) Only one exit ramp travels from southbound Loop 1 to southbound Loop 360; all others are at-grade: 8.9: 14.3: Barton ...
Nearly 60,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War, [9] and 3,417 of them were from Texas. [10] At a reading of the names of fallen veterans held in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium at the LBJ Library, newspaper reporter and Vietnam war correspondent Joe Galloway explained the purpose of the Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument is to "encourage hometowns across America to go all out to welcome Vietnam ...