June 18 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Frisco Rail Yard, 9040 First Street Frisco, TX 75034
Come Celebrate w/ Melody of Hope! Live Music all night with Multiple Artists.
Meet the Mayor of Frisco and Honor our Veterans during the Mayor’s Veterans Social during the Celebration.
Post 178 Fitness Walk on the Third Saturday of each month at 8 am. We will meet at Frisco Commons Park parking lot to start our 1-mile walk, which takes an average of 21 min to complete. If you can’t make it at 8 am, join us afterward with your lawn chair and cooler for the after-walk cool-down. Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash.
Join us for dinner for the post catfish dinner. You pay for your own meal and drinks.
If you do not want catfish, you can order from the menu.
Membership meetings are held on the third Monday at 6:30 p.m. at:
The Grove at Frisco Commons
Commons Hall
8300 McKinney Road
Frisco, Texas 75034
We will recognize Anoushka Rai, a junior at Independence High School and 1 of 4 scholarship winners of the Frisco Post 178 Oratorical contest this past December, and the winner of the 4th District, 1st Division, and Department (State) contest on February 16, 2026. She competed at the National contest where she advanced to the quarter finals.
Opening Ceremony | 6:00 p.m.
You’ll find July 4th family favorites staged in the ring around the minor league ballpark. Check out the classic car show, food trucks and trailers, LIVE music and entertainment.
Visit with city employees from Frisco Police Department, Frisco Fire Department and Play Frisco. Local veterans organizations will be there too – and kids will have fun writing “Letters to Troops”.
End the night in spectacular fashion with our signature fireworks show, lighting up the sky around 10 p.m.
We will always remember and never forget the sacrifices and valor exhibited by our armed forces on that infamous day, June 6, 1944.
What we commemorate: On D-Day Allied Forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. The invasion is significant in history for the role it played in World War II. During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
Code named Operation Overlord, the battle began when 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and 156,000 American, British, and Canadian servicemen landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. When it was over, the Allied Forces had suffered 10,000 casualties; more than 4,000 were dead. Yet somehow, due to planning and preparation, and due to the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of the Allied Forces, Fortress Europe had been breached.
The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.
Due to a possible conflict, the Post Fitness Walk for this Saturday (June 6) is rescheduled to the following Saturday June 13 @ 8:00am
Details
Date: June 16
Time:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Venue
American Legion Post 21, 6301 Main St, The Colony, TX 75056