USS Texas Reunion: It's a call to muster, 
in La Porte, for a special group of World War II 
veterans-we'll tell you more coming up on Passport To Texas.


Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife. 


Between 1914 and 1948, thousands of young men called 
USS Battleship Texas home.


"She was completed prior to WWI, began her service, 
in the Tampico Incident in 1914. Later went on to 
serve with the British fleet in WWI and served throughout 
the inner-war period, primarily in Central America. 
And then WWII she served in a number of campaigns, 
including the invasion of North Africa and Southern 
France, and perhaps most notably as the flagship of 
the task force off Omaha Beach on D-Day." 


In 1983 the Texas was permanently anchored on the Buffalo 
Bayou at the Houston Ship Channel and made a state 
historic site. On October first and second, the 
surviving men who served on her will reunite. Barry 
Ward is director of the site.


"We'll also have military living historians out here 
with uniforms, small firearms displays. What they used, 
how they lived, things like that, military vehicles, 
there will be a band playing, so it will be a fun day 
overall. But perhaps most significantly it will be a 
chance for people of all ages to sit down and perhaps 
interact or speak with somebody who lived and worked 
on the space in which they are standing. It's a 
unique opportunity that will not be there in a few 
more years." 


To learn more about the reunion and Battleship Texas, 
come to our website, passporttotexas.org.
For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.