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| branch=[[United States Army]] (3rd Division)<br>
| branch=[[United States Army]] (3rd Division)<br>
(Stationed in [[Germany]] during the [[Cold War]])
(Stationed in [[Germany]] during the [[Cold War]])
|service years=1958-1960}}
|serviceyears=1958-1960}}
'''Simon Hinojosa Vega''' (October 8, 1935 – May 12, 2017) was a high school [[educator]] who became a friend of [[singer]] [[Elvis Presley]] while the two served together from 1958 to 1960 in the [[United States Army]] in the former [[Germany|West Germany]] In 1993, Vega turned his house into a museum called "Little Graceland" located in his native Los Fresno in Cameron County north of [[Brownsville]], [[Texas]]. Little Graceland is loosely patterned on Presley's former mansion, Graceland, in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|author=John Kelso|year=2006 |title=Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff |edition=3rd |publisher=Globe Pequot |isbn=978-0-7627-4109-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/texascuriosities0000kels/page/255 255–256] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/texascuriosities0000kels/page/255 }}</ref>
'''Simon Hinojosa Vega''' (October 8, 1935 – May 12, 2017) was a high school [[educator]] who became a friend of [[singer]] [[Elvis Presley]] while the two served together from 1958 to 1960 in the [[United States Army]] in the former [[Germany|West Germany]] In 1993, Vega turned his house into a museum called "Little Graceland" located in his native Los Fresno in Cameron County north of [[Brownsville]], [[Texas]]. Little Graceland is loosely patterned on Presley's former mansion, Graceland, in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|author=John Kelso|year=2006 |title=Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff |edition=3rd |publisher=Globe Pequot |isbn=978-0-7627-4109-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/texascuriosities0000kels/page/255 255–256] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/texascuriosities0000kels/page/255 }}</ref>