Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade

Honor our nations veterans by watching this annual parade, organized by the Tarrant County Veterans Council. The theme of this year’s Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade set to step off on Monday, Nov. 11, at 11am is Saluting Cowtown, from frontier Soldiers to space frontiers and more. The 395th Army Band of the Southwest from Mustang, Okla. will march in the parade.

Participants will form up in the Fort Worth Panther Island Pavilion parking lot, march down North Forest Park Blvd. along the Clear Fork of the Trinity River and return. Everyone can join in this salute to the City of Fort Worth and all military veterans who have, are and will continue to make great contributions. See the parade route here.

This year marks 175 years since the first military post was established in North Central Texas. On Nov. 14, 1849, the U.S. War Dept. officially granted the name Fort Worth to the post near the confluence of the Clear and West forks of the Trinity. Fort Worth’s annual Veterans Day celebration began more than 100 years ago as an armistice procession through downtown in 1919 to honor those who had fought in World War I.

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