{"id":39705,"date":"2019-03-20T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/tahoma-national-cemetery-to-honor-vietnam-veterans-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:30:00","slug":"tahoma-national-cemetery-to-honor-vietnam-veterans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/tahoma-national-cemetery-to-honor-vietnam-veterans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahoma National Cemetery to honor Vietnam veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tahoma National Cemetery presents the Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday, March 29, in the Flag Pole Assembly Area, 18600 SE 240th St. Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speaker is Joseph LaVoie, Vietnam veteran and retired U.S. Navy serviceman.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs will honor the service, sacrifice and enduring achievements of the armed forces. Each Vietnam War veteran who has not previously received a lapel pin will receive one during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the lapel pins, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vietnamwar50th.com\/assets\/1\/7\/Veteran_Lapel_Pin_Fact_Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">vietnamwar50th.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parking space is limited in the cemetery. Plan on walking to and from your parking spot to the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tahoma National Cemetery presents the Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday, March 29, in the Flag Pole Assembly Area, 18600 SE 240th St. Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}