AUSTIN – (March 21, 2017) Sugar Land, Texas resident,

AUSTIN – (March 21, 2017) Sugar Land, Texas resident, Texas State Representative Rick Miller speaks to attendees at the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument during Navy Week Austin while Robert Floyd, chairman of the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee looks on. To honor Vietnam veterans during Navy Week, Miller, joined by Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director, Defense Health Agency, laid a wreath at the monument. Miller served in the U.S. Navy as an aviator after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy. In attendance at the ceremony were Navy Vice Chief of Information Rear Adm. Robert Durand, the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard Drill Team, local area Sailors, Texas Association of Vietnam Veterans, and other Texas state representatives. The monument honors the men and women of Texas who served with courage and dignity in the Armed Forces of the United States of America during the Vietnam War. Entombed within the monument are the names of 3,417 Texans who gave their lives so that others might be free. Ending March 24, Navy Week Austin is the second of 15 Navy Weeks in 2017 which focus a variety of assets, equipment, and personnel on a single city for a weeklong series of engagements designed to bring America's Navy closer to the people it protects. (U.S. Navy Photo by Burrell Parmer, Navy Recruiting District San Antonio/Released)