{"id":9209,"date":"2021-03-19T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:56:24","slug":"national-vietnam-war-veteran-day-ceremony-veterans-park-saturday-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/19\/national-vietnam-war-veteran-day-ceremony-veterans-park-saturday-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERAN DAY CEREMONY VETERAN\u2019S PARK SATURDAY, MARCH 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nvwvd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9210\" width=\"418\" height=\"232\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, March 27<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at 10 a.m. there will be a Ceremony memorializing National Vietnam War Veteran Day at Veteran\u2019s Memorial Park located at 701 West Lime Street.&nbsp; The City of Lakeland will join other Polk County municipalities and organizations as a member of the Vietnam War Commemorative Partners Program to thank and honor the veterans of the Vietnam War.&nbsp; Interim City Commissioner and Vietnam War Veteran Don Selvage said, \u201cThe public is invited to join us in a ceremony that will honor those that served during the Vietnam War including the soldiers that were held as prisoners of war and our comrades listed as missing in action.&nbsp; It is time to thank them and honor the families of these veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceremony will highlight the service of the Armed Forces during the Vietnam War and the contributions of Federal agencies and organizations that served or supported war efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp; David J. VanMeter will be the keynote speaker for the event.&nbsp; He is currently the Acting Director of the James A. Haley Veterans\u2019 Hospital and Clinics.&nbsp; He will touch on the&nbsp;contributions made on the home front by the people of the United States during the Vietnam War;&nbsp;and&nbsp;highlight the advances in technology, science, and medicine related to military research conducted during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 27th&nbsp;at 10 a.m. there will be a Ceremony memorializing National Vietnam War Veteran Day at Veteran\u2019s Memorial Park located at 701 West Lime Street.&nbsp; The City of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","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=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}