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Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in West Texas, located at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army post adjacent to the city of El Paso. Administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 82.1 acres (33.2 ha), and as of 2014, had over 50,000 interments.
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km 2); it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in ...
This list of cemeteries in Texas includes currently operating, historical ... Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Fort Bliss, near El Paso; Galveston County
Many El Paso youth groups, including Scouting America, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, and Girl Scout troops, placed American flags at the grave markers at Fort Bliss Cemetery on Saturday, May 25.
5. The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. [1] The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the pilot. The pilot was "not of this world" and was said to be an alien. [2]
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [ 1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [ 2]
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas. There are 13 districts, two National Historic Landmarks, 50 individual properties, and one former property listed on the National Register in the county. Two of these sites are State Historic Sites.
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