{"id":24456,"date":"2024-12-03T17:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-world-war-ii-veterans-will-be-celebrated-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:54:03","slug":"three-world-war-ii-veterans-will-be-celebrated-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-world-war-ii-veterans-will-be-celebrated-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Three World War II veterans will be celebrated in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b8113407-8843-56c0-bbc2-03cc49280a77&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"The Disable American Veterans Outreach Center in Cortez. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Disable American Veterans Outreach Center in Cortez. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>In honor of not one, but three World War II veterans nearing 100 years old, the Disabled American Veterans Outreach Center in Cortez will have a celebration on Friday, Dec. 6 at noon<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s open to the public, and starts with lunch at their office, at 432 N. Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve celebrated a 100-year-old veteran, and to celebrate three of them is pretty amazing,\u201d said Wes Soule, an officer at the DAV in Cortez who is helping to plan the event.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Reed, one of the veterans they\u2019re celebrating, is turning 100 this week. Dick Lindsay, Montezuma County Commissioner Kent Lindsay\u2019s father, and Charles Grasse will also be honored at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our normal meeting day, but I suspect we won\u2019t have a business meeting,\u201d Soule said.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an award ceremony to recognize the centenarians, and each of them should get a quilt of valor. Plus, there will be birthday cake, and \u201csome terrible, off-key singing too,\u201d Soule said.<\/p>\n<p>All three veterans are longtime residents of Cortez, so everyone is invited to come and show their support on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outreach Center is putting on an event in their honor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29,184],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-veterans-affairs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78535,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions\/78535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24456"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}