A Historic Salute

One of the largest crowds ever to  attend Texas Heroes Day showed up Saturday morning at Monument Hill State Park in La Grange to enjoy the festivities. Clockwise from top: Three different cannons kept the echoes booming across the Colorado River Valley, a stagecoach proved popular with the kids , the keynote speaker was Dr. Richard McCaslin from the University of North Texas, and a pile of wreaths await their placement on the tomb of the Texas heroes buried at the park