Our Post 516 and area coming events
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out the major events at all our
district posts – we all need to play together
National Flag Code: FLY
YOUR FLAG days are printed in red.
Normal
meeting schedule:
Post
516 Executive Board: first Thursday at 7PM
American
Legion Riders: First Saturday at noon
Sons
of The American Legion Squadron 516: second Wednesday at 7PM
American
Legion Auxiliary Unit 516: third Thursday at 7PM
American
Legion General Membership: third Thursday at 7PM
United States Submarine Veterans Cowtown Base: Third Saturday at noon
GREAT FOOD AT GREAT PRICES BY GREAT PEOPLE FOR A GREAT CAUSE
Restaurant opens Tues. to Sat. 7am to 2pm
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January 2025
Coats for Vets drive?
Jan 1 (Wed) – New Years Day
Jan 2 (Thurs) – Post
516 Executive Board meeting at 7PM
Jan 3 (Fri) - Karaoke at the Post 7:00 pm – come on down!
Jan 4 (Sat) – Legion Riders Meeting at noon
Jan 8 (Wed) – Sons of the American Legion Squadron 516
meeting 7 pm
Blind Draw Dart
Tournament 7 pm sign up, 7:30 pm start
Jan 10 (Fri) Karaoke at the
Post 7:00 pm – come on down!
Jan 11, 2025 (Sat)– District Oratorical Contest, 8:00 am at Post 379
[Volunteers need to be there at 7 a.m., contest at 8 a.m.]
Jan 11 (Sat) - Wreath Retirement Day 8:00 AM at DFW National Cemetery
Jan 15 – 19, 2025 -Mid Winter Conference- Austin, Texas
Jan 15 (Wed) – Blind Draw Dart Tournament 7
pm sign up, 7:30 pm start
Jan 16 (Thurs) – Auxiliary
Unit 516 Meeting at 7PM
Post 516 General Membership meeting at 7PM
Jan 17 (Fri) Karaoke at the Post 7:00 pm – come on down!
Jan 17 – Feb 8,2025 – Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
Jan 18 (Sat) - Fort Worth Stock Show’s All Western Parade at 11 a.m.
(FYI - Stock Show’s Military Appreciation Day) will be Monday, Feb 3)
Jan 18 (Sat) - Submarine Veterans Cowtown Base meeting at 12
noon
Jan 20, 2025 –Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 20, 2025 – Inauguration Day
Jan 22 (Wed) – Blind Draw Dart Tournament 7
pm sign up, 7:30 pm start
Jan 24
(Fri) Karaoke at the Post 7:00 pm – come on down!
Jan 25, 2025 (Sat) – Chili Cook-off at Post 516
Jan 27, 2025 (Mon)- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jan 29 (Wed) – Blind Draw Dart Tournament 7
pm sign up, 7:30 pm start
Jan 31 (Fri) Karaoke
at the Post 7:00 pm – come on down!
EVENTS
Anticipated Vietnam Veterans Memorial fundraiser
Post 626 participates in many activities at the NAS Fort Worth JRB
Tarrant County Veterans Council meets the second Sat except Dec. and Jan.
FLY YOUR FLAG
Any day you wish, but especially
George Washington’s Birthday
Patriots’ Day (Battle of Lexington & Concord, MA) (Third
Monday in April)
Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday in May)
Memorial Day (last Monday in May and half staff until noon)
Flag Day, 6/14
Independence Day, 7/4
Labor Day
Patriot Day (Terrorists’ Attack 2001), 9/11
Constitution Day, 9/17
Columbus Day (2nd Monday in October)
Veterans Day, 11/11
and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States
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2025 Planning
dates:
Coats for Vets drive?
Jan 1 (Wed) – New Years Day
Jan 11, 2025 (Sat)– District Oratorical Contest, 8:00 am at Post 379
[Volunteers need to be there at 7 a.m., contest at 8 a.m.]
Jan 11 (Sat) - Wreath Retirement Day 8:00 AM at DFW National Cemetery
Jan 15 – 19, 2025 -Mid Winter Conference- Austin, Texas
Jan 17 – Feb 8,2025 – Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
Jan 18 (Sat) - Fort Worth Stock Show’s All Western Parade at 11 a.m.
(FYI - Stock Show’s Military Appreciation Day) will be Monday, Feb 3)
Jan 20, 2025 –Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 20, 2025 – Inauguration Day
Jan 25, 2025 – Chili Cook-off at Post 516
Jan 27, 2025 (Mon)- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Here down update in work
February 2024
- Americanism Month
1st Division Oratorical Competition
Feb 2 (Fri) – Groundhog Day
Feb 3 (Sat) - Four Chaplains Day
Feb. 4 (Sun) - USO Birthday
Feb 4 (Sun) – Scout Sunday
Feb 10 (Sat) – Veterans Day Parade meeting (10:00am) at
VFW Post 8235
Feb 11 (Sun) – Super
Bowl
Feb 12 (Mon) – Lincolns Birthday
Feb 13 (Tues) - Mardi Gras
Feb 14 (Wed) - Valentine's Day
Feb 19 (Mon) – Coast Guard Reserve Birthday
Feb 19 (Mon) – Presidents day
Feb 22 (Thurs) – Washington’s Birthday
March 2024 - Month of the Military Caregiver - Community Service Month – Women’s History Month
Eagle Scout Nomination Packets Due to Department
Mar 2 (Sat) – Texas Independence Day – If needed you can be baptized a Texan in Huntsville today
Mar 3 (Sun) - Navy Reserve Birthday
Mar 5 (Tues) - Seabee Birthday
Mar 9, 2024 (Sat)
– District 12 Coffee Tour & Membership Drive
Veterans Day Parade meeting (10:00am) at VFW Post 8235
Mar 10 – Daylight saving time begins
Mar 13 – K-9 Veterans Day
Mar 11-18 – National Creative Arts Therapy Week
Mar 15 – American Legion Birthday
Mar 15-16 (Fri to Sat) – Mansfield; The World's Only St. Paddy's Pickle Parade & Palooza
Mar 17 - St. Patrick's Day
Mar 20 – International Day of Happiness
Mar 21 – Rosie the Riveter Day
Mar 25 - National Medal of Honor Day
Mar 29 - Vietnam Veterans Day
April 2024 - Month of the Military Child - Children & Youth Month
Apr 1 - April Fools Day
Apr 2, 2023 – Palm Sunday
Apr 5 - Gold Star Wives Day
Apr 5+6 – KIOWA tribe Veterans Council POW WOE in Carnegie, OK
Apr 13 (Sat) – Chili Cook-off noon to 4 pm at Post 516
Apr 11 at Haltom City
Post 655 6 to 9 pm
Make Reservations Now! War Stories will
be the hottest ticket in town.
Apr 13 & 14 - NAS JRB FORT WORTH
WINGS
OVER COWTOWN AIRSHOW
Apr 14 - Air Force Reserve Birthday
Apr 15 – Purple UP! Day for military children
Apr 22. 2024 - Passover Eve
Apr 22 to 30, 2024 – Passover
Apr 25, 2024 (Thurs) - Medal of Honor motorcade from DFW Airport to Gainesville
Apr 25 to 27, 2024 - Gainesville Medal of Honor Host City Program Events
Apr 23 - Army Reserve Birthday
Apr 24, 2024 (Sat) – District 12 Convention
Apr 27, 2024 (Sat) – American Legion Family Day
Hops and Props 9 am to 5 pm, beer tasting from 12 to 5
Apr 30 - National Military Brats Day
May 2024
- National
Military Appreciation Month
Dates to be determined:
Memorial Day Picnic for Veterans Shelters; 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Carry The Load DALLAS MEMORIAL MARCH
May (Sat) –Audie Murphy Day in Greenville
May - CA to DC RFTW XXXIII RUN FOR THE WALL Southern Route
May (1st week in May) – Public Service Recognition Week
May 1 - Law Day & Loyalty Day & Silver Star Service Banner Day
May 2 (First Thurs) – National Day of Prayer
May 2-5,
2024: Mayfest in
Fort Worth, TX (began in 1973)
May 5 – Cinco de Mayo
May 8 - VE (Victory in Europe) Day
May 10 - (Friday in May before Mothers Day)- Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 12 (2nd Sun in May) - Mother's Day
May 15 – Peace Officers Memorial Day
May 17-19, 2024
- Main Street Fest in Grapevine, TX (began in 1985)
May 18, 2023 (3rd Saturday in May) - Armed Forces Day
May 24 (Friday before Memorial Day) - National Poppy Day
May 27 (last Monday
in May) - Memorial Day (flag half staff until noon)
(All to be confirmed)
8:30 am - Forrest Hill Memorial Day Ceremony
10 am - New Trinity Cemetery in Haltom City (located at 28th & Beach St)
10 am Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Park, 5725 Colleyville Blvd., Colleyville
10 am Laurel Land Memorial Park, 7100 Crowley Road, Fort Worth
10 am Veterans Park, 8901 Clifford St, White Settlement, TX 76108
10 am Lake Worth Multi-Purpose Facility, 7005 Charbonneau
Rd., Lake Worth
10:15 am Greenwood Cemetery Fort Worth, WW-1 Royal Flying Corps
11:00 am DFW National Cemetery Ceremony
Noon – Arlington Memorial Day ceremony; Elks Lodge 2114
3:00 pm – The National Moment of Remembrance moment of silence
6:30 pm - Mount Olivet Cemetery, 2301 N. Sylvania Ave., Fort Worth
8:00 pm – Post 516 Flag Retirement
June 2024
June - Graduations
(Fri – Sun) - Annual Dept. of Texas ALR State Rally?
Girls State – have found no information on the state website
(Sat) – First Division Convention
Jun 6 - D-Day - World War II Allied invasion in Normandy, France
Jun 9 (Sun) - Boys State Bus Send Off at 10:00 am – Legion Rider escort to Waco
Jun 9-14, 2024 - Texas Boys State Texas Boys State at the University of Texas at Austin
Jun 14 – Army Birthday – Flag Day
Flag Retirement Ceremony at Benbrook Post 297
Flag Retirement Ceremony 6:30 pm at Mansfield Post 624
Flag Retirement 7:00 pm at Arlington Elks Lodge (Post 60) Boy Scout Troop 396
Jun 16 (3rd Sunday in June) – Fathers Day
Jun 19 – Emancipation Day - Juneteenth
Jun 23 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Birthday
Jun 27 - National PTSD Awareness Day
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July 2024
July 4 (Tues) -
Independence Day
Arlington Texas Parade Starts at 9 am
Burleson parade Starts at 9 am
Rocking Fort Worth 4th event
Not confirmed events:
Haltom City Post 655
Family Day ending with FIREWORKS starting at 3 pm
Waxahachie’s Parade starts at 10 am
Granbury’s Parade starts at 10 am
GRAND PRAIRIE Lone Stars & Stripes Celebration: July 4th @ 3:00pm
MANSFIELD Rockin' 4th of July 7:00pm to 10:00pm
White Lake Hills Forth of July Parade
Jul 9-14, 2024 (Mon-Sun) - Department Convention in Austin
Second Tuesday of July is Cow Appreciation Day. Coined by Chick-fil-A
Jul 27 – National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (1953)
Jul 29 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps
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The American Legion Baseball World Series
Aug 2 (first Fri of every Aug) - International Beer Day
Aug 4 - Coast Guard Birthday
Aug 7 - Purple Heart Day
Aug 9-11, 2024 (Fri, Sat and Sun) - TAX FREE WEEKEND
Aug 14 – National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Aug 18 (third Sun of Aug) - National Senior Citizens Day
Aug 23 – 29, 2024 – American Legion National Convention New Orleans, LA
Aug 29 - Marine Forces Reserve Birthday
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September
2024
- National
Disaster Preparedness & National Suicide Prevention Month
Sep 2 (1st Mon in Sep) - Labor Day
Sep 2 - VJ Day
Sep 8 (first Sun of Sep after Labor Day) - Grandparents Day
Sep 11 - Patriot Day (Terrorists’ Attack 2001)
Sep 20 - (third Fri of Sep) - POW/MIA Recognition Day
Sep 17 – Constitution Day (1787)
Sep 18 - Air Force Birthday (1957)
Sep 18 – 24, 2024 – DEC in Austin, Texas
Sep 29 (last Sunday of Sept) - Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day
Sep 29 - American Indian Heritage Day In Texas
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October 2024
OCW Cruse
?Oct (Sun) – Breast Cancer Awareness Benefit Breakfast at Post 379
Oct 1 (first Tues in Oct) – Texas National Night Out
Oct 7 (2nd Mon in Oct) - Columbus Day (1492)
Oct 13 - Navy Birthday
Oct 26 - National Day of the Deployed
Oct 27 – Navy Day
Oct 31 - Halloween
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November 2024
Military Family Month, Warrior
Care Month
Native American Heritage Month
November Audie
Murphy Parade, Farmersville
(Monday) – Golden Corral Military Appreciation Night
Annual Mid-Cities Stamp Expo; Grapevine Convention Center
Toys for Tots kick off
Tarrant County Homeless Veterans Stand Down 8am to 1pm
Fort Worth Parade of Lights 6 pm
Nov 3 (Sun) - Daylight Saving Time ends
Nov 5 – Election Day
? Nov 9 (Sat):
Nov 10 (Sun) - Marine Corps Birthday
Annual Massing of the Colors, Birchman Baptist Church – 2:30 pm
Nov 11 (Mon) - Veterans Day
TARRANT COUNTY VETERANS DAY
PARADE
The theme is “Saluting Cowtown - from frontier Soldiers to space frontiers & more”.
The 175th anniversary of the naming of Fort Worth
National Cemetery Veterans Day Program
Arlington Veterans Day Parade
The City of Arlington’s inaugural
Veterans Day parade. The theme is “Texas Honors Veterans”. The “Sunset Parade”
will begin at 4:00 pm. Registration and details can be found on the TVDP
website. Arlington Veterans Day Parade
Flag Retirement Ceremony; 5:15 pm at Post 516
Nov 19 - World Toilet Day
Nov 24 - Native American Heritage Day
Nov 28 (4th Thurs in Nov) - Thanksgiving Day
National Red Kettle Campaign Kick-off
December 2024
Holiday & Heroes for NAS holidaysandheroes.org
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl will take place on December 27, 2024!
Dec 1 - Civil Air Patrol (USAF Auxiliary) Birthday
Dec 7 – Pearl Harbor Day
Dec 13 - National Guard Birthday
Dec 14, 2024 - National Wreaths Across America Day
Dec 20 - US Space Force Birthday
Dec 24 - Christmas Eve
Dec 25 - Christmas Day
Dec 26, 2024 - Hanukkah (first day) to Jan 2, 2025
Dec 26 - Kwanzaa (first day) to Jan 1, 2025
Dec 27 - Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl and Veterans Village
Dec 28 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Assistant
Dec 31 - New Year's Eve
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Last update 12/20/2024
