| In 2018, Texas was down to just four veterans in Congress. On Jan. 3 when the new Congress gavels in, Texas will have 11 veterans among the 38-member delegation — the highest number of veterans in 30 years. The state increase mirrors a national trend that has 80 veterans among the 435 members of the U.S. House elected in November — the first increase in the number of veterans in the House in decades. "This is the first election since the Vietnam War where congressional military service has significantly increased," said Seth Lynn, a University of San Francisco adjunct professor and founder of Veterans Campaign, a nonprofit that studies military service in politics. "While this seems like a moderate uptick, it represents a profound and very positive shift in America's relationship with its veterans." Texas has a huge presence in the military that includes 15 active duty military bases and almost 217,000 combined active duty soldiers and civilians on its bases — the second highest in the nation. Texas also has almost 1.6 million veterans — more than every state but California, which has more than 1.6 million veterans. Read the full story here. | 
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