AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Brookdale Medi Park West will honor its resident veterans with a special Veterans Day ceremony at 1 p.m. on Friday at the senior living community on Wallace Boulevard.

According to Brookdale Medi Park West, the celebration will spotlight resident Silas Teague, 99, who served in the U.S. Navy for 20 months during World War II, principally in the South Pacific. After the war, he served on the U.S.S. Brisco as a yeoman. His oldest son served in the Vietnam War.

The event will also spotlight Judy Coomer, 80, who served as a U.S. Army nurse from 1967 to 1969 during the Vietnam War. "She has great memories of her time there even though they were under fire and often had to move patients under beds or covering them with mattresses to protect them," officials said.

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