Carlos Liscano was born in Frisco, left for the Army in 1965 and came back three years later with a Bronze Star. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the city plans to name him Frisco's 2026 Distinguished Veteran.
A proclamation on the City Council's Nov. 3 agenda, issued by Mayor Mark Hill on behalf of the council and the Frisco Veterans Advisory Committee, lays out the career behind the honor. It is listed first among the evening's proclamations, eight days before Veterans Day.
Under fire in the A Shau Valley
Liscano enlisted as a combat engineer, finished Airborne training and served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. The proclamation says the Bronze Star Medal came for his work as a Specialist Five overseeing the building of an artillery firebase in the A Shau Valley, with the site under enemy fire.
Honorably discharged in 1968, he came back to Frisco and used the G.I. Bill to earn his GED and attend college.
The ceremony at Main and Gary Burns
Much of the document is about what he did at home. In the early 1990s, it says, Liscano was instrumental in creating the city's formal Memorial Day remembrance, bringing the Frisco Garden Club together with VFW Post 8273. The first observance took place in 1994 at the War Memorial on Main Street at Gary Burns Drive.
He led the Corporal Robert Ray Brown VFW Post 8273 as commander for 12 years, spent 13 years in the Frisco Lions Club, including a term as its president, and helped found Frisco Family Services, serving on its first board; the group aids local families in need.
