On a rare day off from covering golf I grabbed the opportunity to see a little bit more of Texas.

On a glorious Saturday morning I found myself heading east along Texas highway 90 when I came across the Triangle Veterans Memorial Park located less than two hours drive south-east of Houston and just outside the town of Orange in the south-east of the state and not far from the Louisana border.

The memorial park was not hard to miss located right beside the highway and the visit was extremely interesting with the only downpoint being the countless number of names appearing on memorial walls who had given the ultimate sacrifice.

The park derives its name from the economic boost it got from the significant oil strike there in 1901 withe the Veterans Memorial Park at the southern tip of the triangle of the towns of Beamount, Port Arthur and Orange.

Besides the static military equipment displays, the park contains 10,000 names of Golden Triangle servicemen that served in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, peacetime, Desert Storm, and along with the Merchant Marines who served during WWII.

There is a 50-foot high Tower of Honor lists the names, rank, branch of service, and war served of the 930 of those killed or missing in action.

Static displays include an F4-D Phantom Jet, an M60A3 Tank, an UH-1 Huey Helicopter, an anchor from the Texaco SS Mississippi (the last WWII Merchant Marine ship to be decommissioned), an assault landing craft, and an oversize bronze Marine soldier.

And what was of note is that among the walls honouring the dead is a few walls with no name plaques with park officials no doubt expecting further names to be adding in coming years.

However congratulations to park administrators in being able to obtain original and former fighting components of the USA military and put them on display.