Parade plans become set in stone

  • 2014-11-04
Dallas will host a Veterans Day Parade preceded by an enlistment ceremony and including numerous patriotic displays at City Hall.

The Veterans Day commemoration will start at 9:00 am when Dallas City Hall opens and displays from various organizations become available for viewing by the public. The exhibits from veteran and military organization and corporations will remain viewable until 3:30 pm. Following this at 10:30 am, 150 enlistees, representing all branches of the services, will publicly take the oath of enlistment in a ceremony in front of Dallas City Hall.

Next on the agenda, at 11:00 am, will be the Eleventh Hour Ceremony that includes a wreath laying and Taps. Additionally, a flyover in the Missing Man Formation conducted by Sheppard Air Force Base’s Euro-NATO Training Wing will take place. David Dewhurst, the Texas lieutenant governor, will speak and staff sergeant Travis Mills, who inspired ‘A Soldier’s Story’, will lead the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. There will also be a Massing of the Colors performed by cadets.

The theme for this year’s Veteran’s Day Parade is ‘Honoring Wounded Veterans’, and it will begin at 11:20 am on November 11 at the former Reunion Arena location, before proceeding down Main Street to the Dallas City Hall. The effort to inform veterans of the services available to them, as well as what the civilian population can do to assist veterans, can benefit from the assistance of brochure printers.