American Legion Post 38 in Floresville, Texas, will host the Wilson County Military Veteran's Ball on Saturday, December 19, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at The Copper Door, 302 FM 1346, La Vernia, Texas 78121. The evening is music, dinner, dancing, and fellowship — a county-wide thank-you to those who served.
Post 38 hosts this county-wide evening of honor because the veterans of Wilson County are not confined to one town or one era. They live in Floresville, La Vernia, and every community in between. An open invitation is how this Post says, in public, that service still counts here. The Hall at 1412 4th Street is our home; The Copper Door is where we ask the county to gather.
December 19 is a date to put on the refrigerator now. Buy tickets early and fill a table. Invite a veteran who is not yet a member of the Post. Invite a family member who has stood the watch at home. The Ball is for those who wore the uniform and for those who kept the household running while they did. A full table is the point of a county-wide evening.
The American Legion Auxiliary supports the Post on this evening, as it does throughout the year. Tickets are $50 general admission via Zeffy at https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/annual-gala-5336. The flyer on this page carries a QR code for the same ticket page. Volunteers should speak with a Post officer at the September 10 meeting (7 to 9 p.m.) or a third-Thursday Tailgate. Questions: (830) 393-7929 or txlegion38.org. Put December 19 on the calendar. Fill a table. Show up for the people who showed up for this country.
Post 38 – Saving a Place at the Ball for Those Who Served.
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American Legion Post 38 in Floresville, Texas, marks the 82nd Annual Floresville Peanut Festival as a hometown tradition. The festival runs Thursday, October 8, through Saturday, October 10, 2026, on the Courthouse Square in historic downtown Floresville. Official details live at floresvillepeanutfestival.org. The Hall will be set up as a cooling center during the festival. We will use it to recruit veterans and to sell gun raffle tickets.
The official festival calendar also lists Tuesday, October 6. Goober Games kick off the week that Tuesday afternoon at the Floresville Event Center, with games and activities for the younger crowd. The weekend itself is Thursday through Saturday. The festival's own site lists free grounds admission and free street parking. Saturday, October 10, is the Grand Parade at 10:00 a.m. downtown. Festival questions belong to the festival.
Thursday, October 8, is also the second Thursday of the month. The General Membership Meeting that night from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. is cancelled. We still want members to come visit Post 38 and support the community during the festival.
Post 38's own site already names annual participation in Floresville's Peanut Festival among the traditions of turning out for local festivities. That is the claim this page will make, and no more. The Post marks the weekend as a hometown tradition. Be downtown as neighbors. After the parade, the Hall is still the Hall. Second-Thursday meetings and third-Thursday Tailgates do not move because the square is busy. Questions for the Post: (830) 393-7929 or txlegion38.org. Festival details: floresvillepeanutfestival.org.
Post 38 – A Hometown Tradition. Turn Out as Neighbors.
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Friday, September 18, 2026, is National POW/MIA Recognition Day — always the third Friday of September. American Legion Post 38 in Floresville, Texas, joins the Legion Family nationwide in a national observance. This page does not invent a Post ceremony. It names the day, the flag, and the duty: those who were captured, those still missing, and the families who wait are not forgotten.
The first National POW/MIA Recognition Day was observed in 1979 after a proclamation by President Jimmy Carter. The date later settled on the third Friday of September, where it has remained. Each year the President issues a proclamation. Americans are asked to pause, to fly the POW/MIA flag, and to remember that accounting for the missing is unfinished work.
The black-and-white flag that marks the day is the emblem of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. It was designed in 1971 by Newt Heisley, a World War II veteran and commercial artist, after the League sought a symbol that families could rally around. The League's board approved the design in January 1972. No copyright or trademark was sought, so the flag could travel as far as the cause required. A silhouette bows before a guard tower and a strand of barbed wire. Above: POW ★ MIA. Below: YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.
In 1989 the flag was installed in the United States Capitol Rotunda — the only flag other than the Stars and Stripes ever displayed there in that way. Public Law 101-355, enacted in 1990, recognized it as a symbol of the Nation's concern and commitment to the fullest possible accounting. The National POW/MIA Flag Act of 2019 requires that it fly at specified federal properties on every day the United States flag is displayed.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues that accounting from every American war. The numbers change as remains are identified and as families receive answers. The duty does not change. Post 38 will not invent local names of the missing for this column. We will say what is true in Floresville: Post 38 flies the POW/MIA flag with the colors. Pause there. Fly the flag at home on the eighteenth. Make a Buddy Check to a veteran or family member you know. Show them you care.
Friday, September 18, is also the birthday of the United States Air Force, established as a separate service on September 18, 1947. We will have cake at the Post to celebrate those veterans from the U.S. Air Force. Two observances can share a date without competing. One asks us to remember those who did not come home. The other marks a service that has flown, fought, and lost people of its own.
If the day sits heavy, stay with a comrade. The rest of the work is quieter: a flag flown correctly, a name remembered, a chair saved at the second-Thursday meeting or the third-Thursday Tailgate. You are not forgotten is a promise. Post 38 intends to keep it.
Post 38 – You Are Not Forgotten.
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This September, American Legion Post 38 in Floresville, Texas, marks twenty-five years since the morning of September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, at the Pentagon, and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The twenty-fifth anniversary is not a closed chapter. It is a living obligation: to honor the dead, to stand with those who served in the wars that followed, and to look after one another in the years still unfolding.
On that Tuesday, nineteen terrorists hijacked four airliners. Two struck the World Trade Center. One struck the Pentagon. Passengers and crew on United Flight 93 fought back; their aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania, short of its intended target. First responders ran toward the fires. In the days that followed, Americans enlisted, donated, and gathered under flags hung from porches and overpasses. A generation of service members — many of them now Legionnaires — deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other theaters in the long conflict that began that morning.
Post 38 will not invent a local 9/11 ceremony for this page. What the Post has set is work the community can see. On Saturday, September 12, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, members will turn out for a Day of Service. Members will select neglected cemeteries in Wilson County and perform brush clearing, mowing, and other maintenance as a service back to the community. Remembrance that morning is a rake, a mower, and a few hours among the stones. Meet at the Hall for assignments and tools, then go out to the cemeteries. Members are asked to turn out.
Friday, September 11, is Patriot Day and the National Day of Service and Remembrance. Raise a flag properly. Pause at noon if you can. Look in on a veteran who served after 2001. Then come Saturday morning ready to work. Honor does not require a podium. It requires that we show up.
Children and grandchildren did not live through 2001; they inherit it. Teaching them why we stand for the colors, why we retire worn flags at the collection box at Post 38, and why veterans still carry that day is part of our charge in Floresville and Wilson County. Twenty-five years is long enough for a child to grow up. It is not long enough to forget.
Looking out for one another belongs to that charge as well. The American Legion's Be the One initiative asks every member to notice when a veteran is struggling and to act. A Buddy Check is not a speech. It is a phone call, a chair saved at the Tailgate on the third Thursday, a ride to the second-Thursday meeting.
Twenty-five years on, the wars that followed 9/11 have sent a generation home to Wilson County. Some sit in our Hall. Some do not. Remembrance without care is incomplete. When the cemetery work is done, second-Thursday meetings and third-Thursday Tailgates remain the place a post-2001 veteran can find a chair and a hearing. Bring someone who has not been in. Show up the way this country showed up that week — not with a speech, with a presence.
Wilson County sent people to the wars that followed that morning. Some came home to Post 38. Some have not walked through the door in a long time. A Buddy Check on the week of the eleventh is not extra credit. It is the charge. Raise the colors. Pause at noon. Then pick up a tool on Saturday — and pick up the phone.
Post 38 – We Remember, and We Take Care of One Another.
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September 11, 2026, marks twenty-five years since the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon, and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. American Legion Post 38 in Floresville, Texas, remembers that morning not as a closed chapter but as a living obligation: to honor the dead, to stand with those who served in the wars that followed, and to look after one another in the years still unfolding.
On that Tuesday, nineteen terrorists hijacked four airliners. Two struck the World Trade Center. One struck the Pentagon. Passengers and crew on United Flight 93 fought back; their aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania, short of its intended target. First responders ran toward the fires. In the days that followed, Americans enlisted, donated, and gathered under flags hung from porches and overpasses. A generation of service members — many of them now Legionnaires — deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other theaters in the long conflict that began that morning.
This September 12, Post 38 will memorialize the anniversary in a way the community can see: members will select neglected cemeteries in Wilson County and perform brush clearing, mowing, and other maintenance as a service back to the community. Remembrance that day is a rake, a mower, and a few hours of work among the stones. Members are asked to turn out.
Service is the other half of memory. Children and grandchildren did not live through 2001; they inherit it. Teaching them why we stand for the colors, why we retire worn flags at the collection box at 1412 4th Street, and why veterans still carry that day is part of our charge in Floresville and Wilson County.
Looking out for one another belongs to that charge as well. The American Legion's Be the One initiative asks every member to notice when a veteran is struggling and to act. A Buddy Check is not a speech. It is a phone call, a chair saved at the Tailgate on the third Thursday, a ride to the second-Thursday meeting. If you or a veteran you know is in crisis, dial 988 and press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line. Help is available around the clock.
Twenty-five years is long enough for children to grow up and for some wounds to stay fresh. We will not forget. We will also not leave our own to remember alone.
Twenty-five years on, the wars that followed 9/11 have sent a generation home to Wilson County. Some sit in our Hall. Some do not. Remembrance without care is incomplete.
On September 11, raise a flag properly, pause at noon if you can, and look in on a veteran who served after 2001. Watch Post meetings and txlegion38.org for any local observance the Post announces. Until then, the work is the same: remember the dead, stand with the living, and do not leave a comrade to carry that day alone.
Meet at the Hall for assignments and tools, then go out to the cemeteries. When the work is done, second-Thursday meetings and third-Thursday Tailgates remain the place a post-2001 veteran can find a chair and a hearing. Bring someone who has not been in. Show up the way this country showed up that week — not with a speech, with a presence.
If the anniversary sits heavy, you are not the only one in Wilson County who feels it. Stay with a comrade who needs the day named. Dial 988 and press 1 if it turns toward crisis. Fold a worn flag for the collection box. Teach a child or a grandchild why we still stand. Memory is a practice, not a headline.
Wilson County sent people to the wars that followed that morning. Some came home to 1412 4th Street. Some have not walked through the door in a long time. A Buddy Check on the week of the eleventh is not extra credit. It is the charge.
Raise the colors. Pause at noon. Then pick up the phone. The twenty-fifth anniversary will pass whether we mark it well or not. Post 38 intends to mark it by taking care of our own.
Post 38 – We Remember, and We Take Care of One Another.
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