{"id":56099,"date":"2022-03-18T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-residents-can-honor-a-vietnam-war-veteran-for-free\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:05:00","slug":"king-county-residents-can-honor-a-vietnam-war-veteran-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-residents-can-honor-a-vietnam-war-veteran-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"King County residents can honor a Vietnam War veteran for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of King County can honor a Vietnam War veteran by ordering a free granite tile that will be placed in the Vietnam War Memorial in Les Gove Park in Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>King County has offered to pay for the first 100 tiles for King County residents. You can submit a tile request form on honorvietnamvets.org and non-residents of King County can purchase a tile for $100.<\/p>\n<p>The tiles are 3 inches tall by 6 inches wide and can be custom engraved with information including the name, branch and years of services of the veteran you want to honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnam War Memorial was built by American-Vietnamese War Memorial Alliance on land donated to the alliance by the city of Auburn in 2018, according to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>American-Vietnamese War Memorial Alliance is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization created to honor United States, Republic of Vietnam and Allied veterans of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding the tiles or the memorial, contact American-Vietnamese War Memorial Alliance via email at contact@honorvietnamvets.org or call 360-357-7684.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The county is paying for 100 custom granite tiles to be placed at Les Gove Park memorial in Auburn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":56100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-56099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56099"}],"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\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56099"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}