Join us to honor the City’s Color/Honor Guards for the service they provide our community throughout the year. Wives, families, and friends are also invited to attend.
December 19, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Frisco Gun Club
6565 Eldorado Parkway
Frisco, TX 75033
(L-R) Larry Wilhelm, Post Executive Committee member, Ed Reed, Immediate Past Commander, LtCol Hamartrya Tharpe, USMC, Senior Naval Science Instructor, Lebanon Trail NJROTC, and Bill Drake, Color Guard Captain.
Members of the Post 178 Executive Committee attended the Lebanon Trail NJROTC unit’s Area Manager inspection on Wednesday, December 4 at Lebanon Trail High School. Attending were Bill Drake, Larry Wilhelm, and Ed Reed.
The inspection was required for the NJROTC unit to demonstrate their hard work and to ensure that program standards and requirements were being met. During the inspection, a unit brief was presented by the Cadet Staff, drill teams provided demonstrations, the cadet inspection was performed, and a Pass and Review ceremony was completed.
Our Dec Fitness Walk. The first Saturday of each month at 8:00 am at Frisco Commons Park
Each year on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Survivors, veterans, and visitors from all over the world come together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. An additional 1,178 people were injured in the attack, which permanently sank two U.S. Navy battleships (the USS Arizona and the USS Utah) and destroyed 188 aircraft.
On Aug. 23, 1994, the United States Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Every year, remembrance events are held at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, culminating in a commemoration ceremony on Dec. 7.
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps. American Legion Post 178 will honor the US Marine Corps’ 249th Birthday with cake prior to the General Membership meeting to be held on Monday November 18 at 6:30 P.M. at The Grove, 8300 E. McKinney Street, Frisco. We will enjoy the cake and play the US Marine Corps service song just before the start of the meeting.