Events Honoring Our Veterans, With Special Recognition of Tuskegee Airmen
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at Arlington Veterans Park Memorial
Spanish Trail at 3600 West Arkansas Lane, Arlington, Texas 76015
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Eighteenth Annual Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony
FEATURED SPEAKER
BRIGADIER GENERAL (Ret.) LEON A. JOHNSON
Leon Johnson retired from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of brigadier general after 33 years of service. During his AF career, General Johnson commanded a fighter squadron, fighter group, was the Vice Commander of 10th Air Force at the Joint Reserve Base in Ft. Worth, TX and served as Mobilization Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. He was a Distinguished AFROTC graduate from Oregon State University. General Johnson was a command pilot with over 3500 hours of military flying time in the T-37 trainer, A-37, and A-10 fighter aircraft including missions over Bosnia in support of Operation Deny Flight. Following the events of 9/11, the general served as a Director of the Air Force Crisis Action Team in the Pentagon. His military awards include the Distinguished Service Medal and Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster. In 2009 General Johnson was selected as a Trustee of the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation. In 2011 General Johnson was awarded a Doctorate in Humane Letters by Tuskegee University. In 2013 the General concluded a six-year appointment as a member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Naval Studies Board. He continues to serve on study committees and roundtables for NASEM. In November 2017, he concluded his second three-year term as a Secretary of the Air Force appointee to the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Board of Governors (BOG). In April 2018 General Johnson was selected to be an Emeritus Member of the CAP BOG. In 2019 he was selected to be a Trustee of the CAP Foundation. In 2019 he received the FAA Wright Brothers “Master Pilot” Award for 50 years of safe flying. General Johnson worked at United Parcel Service Airlines for 20 years. He was the chief pilot responsible for all air operations in the western half of the United States, North and South Pacific, all of Asia, and the Middle East. He was also a human resources manager responsible for employee relations, work force development, and employment for UPS Airline. He has over 4000 hours of civilian flight time in heavy jets.
12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Complimentary luncheon at Park Pavilion
Attendees are invited to join us for a complimentary American barbeque and Vietnamese food luncheon at the park pavilion immediately following the commemoration ceremony. To make your reservations for the complimentary luncheon and for more information about these events, contact Jim Runzheimer at 817-795-2020 or runzlaw2@swbell.net.
