{"id":16832,"date":"2021-11-06T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=16832"},"modified":"2021-11-06T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:05:09","slug":"what-an-amazing-and-beautiful-morning-to-honor-our-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/what-an-amazing-and-beautiful-morning-to-honor-our-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"What an AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL morning to honor our veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Included are photos from the 2021 Veteran&#8217;s Day Ceremony held earlier this morning at Veterans Memorial Park.It was an honor to stand alongside true giants, WWII veterans and so many others who served our great country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was special also as a monument erected to honor Polk County\u2019s African American WWII soldiers was dedicated during this morning\u2019s ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A truly uplifting speech was given by Terry Coney, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NAACPLakeland?__cft__[0]=AZVc8Z13qhbThC8pMB-ooCzQlW1mD0lv7RYtUJf31aoKMFaGqjTAjkBIMOP_9KGvtztLy1cLShil6tEIxukMOzx-2S7bMrgdjtYrKsfRerlWrC_MSfiTx4Z8pAUhHcQZk7hwJGt3FkkDRtyIm-n5jqaWqd3ZKNaVoAww3zTW75vYdZF1kYV0IjsXyUzkAxGZ0tk&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Naacp Lakeland Branch<\/a> where he honored the service of WWII Veterans and trailblazers, Herman Jenkins, 102, of Lakeland, and J.J. Corbett, 99, of Bartow who were in attendance at the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PolkCountyVeteransCouncil\/?__cft__[0]=AZVc8Z13qhbThC8pMB-ooCzQlW1mD0lv7RYtUJf31aoKMFaGqjTAjkBIMOP_9KGvtztLy1cLShil6tEIxukMOzx-2S7bMrgdjtYrKsfRerlWrC_MSfiTx4Z8pAUhHcQZk7hwJGt3FkkDRtyIm-n5jqaWqd3ZKNaVoAww3zTW75vYdZF1kYV0IjsXyUzkAxGZ0tk&amp;__tn__=kK-R\">Polk County Veterans Council<\/a> for organizing this event each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included are photos from the 2021 Veteran&#8217;s Day Ceremony held earlier this morning at Veterans Memorial Park.It was an honor to stand alongside true giants, WWII veterans and so many&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1643],"class_list":["post-16832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-what-an-amazing-and-beautiful-morning-to-honor-our-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}