COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Residents and staff at The Langford paid tribute to the veterans who now call the senior living community home.

Among the veterans who were honored on Veterans Day is Patricia Bentz, the community’s only female veteran.

“I didn’t know until they put up a veterans wall with our pictures that I was the only female veteran in this whole place,” Bentz said.

Bentz is a former U.S. Air Force nurse who served during the Vietnam War era.

“The picture they put up, I was 21 years old, so I was happy to see it,” she said. “It brought back a lot of memories.”

Patricia Bentz (KBTX)

Bentz served from 1970 to 1972 as a nurse at a 252-bed regional Air Force hospital in Fort Worth, providing care for returning service members, including those injured during the war.

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