It’s still an impressive sight: The mighty battleship built nearly 110 years ago and now moored by the San Jacinto Monument near the city of La Porte, near Houston. It’s the only U.S. Navy ship still around that saw action in World War I and World War II. What a story the Texas will tell – from its birth at a Virginia shipyard 108 years ago, to the vital role it played on D-Day 1944 as Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy. Then just a few weeks later, it had a close call at the Port of Cherbourg in France when German shells struck the Texas. It was quickly repaired in Britain and sent to the Pacific for the Battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

After the war, the ship was given to the State of Texas as America’s first floating military museum. Many millions of Texas school kids, veterans and the curious have walked the decks during the 74 years that it’s been docked.

- Bob Garcia-Buckalew

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