Fort Worth's Tuskegee Airmen Veterans Home Holds Its Veterans Day Ceremony Wednesday at 11 A.M.
The state veterans home on Joe B. Rushing Road - named for the Tuskegee Airmen and home to a P-51C Mustang replica - is Tarrant County's entry in the Veterans Land Board's statewide observances. The public is invited, no RSVP needed.
FORT WORTH - One of Wednesday's quieter Veterans Day observances carries one of its heaviest names. The Tuskegee Airmen Texas State Veterans Home, at 2200 Joe B. Rushing Road in Fort Worth, holds its Veterans Ceremony on Wednesday, November 11, beginning at 11 a.m., part of the Texas Veterans Land Board's statewide week of events at its veterans homes.
The home is named for the Tuskegee Airmen, the Black military aviators of the Second World War, and the Land Commissioner's release highlights a P-51C Mustang replica aircraft at the Fort Worth home - the type the Airmen made famous as bomber escorts. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who chairs the Veterans Land Board, encouraged Texans to attend the events scheduled at VLB homes across the state; the listed events are open to the public and no RSVP is required.
The Fort Worth ceremony starts at the same hour as the Tarrant County parade downtown, which puts the county's Veterans Day morning in two places at once: the parade route for the crowds, and a veterans home's own ceremony for the residents who served. For families visiting a veteran at the home, the state is treating Wednesday as an open door.
