1923 - Cleto Rodriguez was born. He was a native Texan from San Marcos who became the first Mexican American GI to win the Medal of Honor in the South Pacific in WWII.
1968 - Texan PFC Milton Lee earned the Medal of Honor for heroism for overrunning an enemy positions and providing covering fire for his platoon during the Vietnam War. He died that day from the wounds he had suffered. President Nixon presented the medal to his grandmother on April 7, 1970.
| The 'Texas Trail' was the highway over which a tide of cattle was moved from Southwestern and Western Texas to the northwestern states, including Indian Territory, Kansas, Western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming Territory, North and South Dakota and Montana." - U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick on December 10, 1916 |
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