{"id":63616,"date":"2015-05-25T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=63616"},"modified":"2015-05-25T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:14:49","slug":"we-remember-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/05\/25\/we-remember-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WE REMEMBER\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63618\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/We-remember1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63618\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/We-remember1.jpg\" alt=\"More than 200 people came out to Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale Monday for a Memorial Day Ceremony presented by the Antelope Valley Service Organization Association.\" width=\"734\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/We-remember1.jpg 734w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/We-remember1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 200 people came out to Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale Monday for a Memorial Day Ceremony presented by the Antelope Valley Service Organization Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE &#8211; More than 200 people came out to Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale Monday for a Memorial Day Ceremony presented by the Antelope Valley Service Organization Association.<\/p>\n<p>The free ceremony included the raising of the colors and Pledge of Allegiance, a Table of Honor Ceremony, conducted by Highland High School Air Force JROTC, and remarks from various speakers honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Palmdale Mayor <strong>Jim Ledford<\/strong> stressed the importance of remembering our fallen heroes, year after year. To keep the tradition alive, he said, you must include young people in the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everybody here was to bring a young person, it would help us tell a story that needs to be told in order to maintain what this nation stands for,\u201d Ledford said.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial Day ceremony also took place in Lancaster Monday morning in the Veterans Court of Honor at the Lancaster Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; More than 200 people came out to Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale Monday for a Memorial Day Ceremony presented by the Antelope Valley Service Organization Association. The free ceremony included the raising of the colors and Pledge of Allegiance, a Table of Honor Ceremony, conducted by Highland High School Air Force JROTC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}