I Live in Sugar Land and there was the annual “International Festival” in downtown Houston about 6 weeks ago.They pick a country for a theme each year.This year, it was Australia. They had a display about the USS Houston there, which I was happy to see.
Title: U.S.S. Houston Monument
Artist: Jeff Ryan
Date: 1998
Type: Monument
Medium: Granite
Location: Sam Houston Park
The U.S.S. Houston Monument incorporates the brass ship’s bell recovered from the wreck of the U.S.S. Houston, which has been placed atop a granite pedestal. It is the scene of an annual commemoration of the sailors who died in the sinking of the Houston in the Sunda Strait, March 1, 1942, by the Japanese Navy. Of the 1, 068 men on board, 700 died, and the survivors were used as slave labor on the Burma Railroad. Many died before being liberated by the Allies in 1945. The names of the ship’s crew are written on the pedestal.
http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/artinparks/USShoustonmonument.html