{"id":46533,"date":"2021-05-29T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/memorial-day-ceremonies-planned-for-montezuma-county-towns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:32:12","slug":"memorial-day-ceremonies-planned-for-montezuma-county-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/memorial-day-ceremonies-planned-for-montezuma-county-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day ceremonies planned for Montezuma County towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a8112a26-cdb4-4566-8b5a-2b7444f2640a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1095\" alt=\"A rifle salute will be part of the Memorial Day ceremony at the Cortez Cemetery at 6 a.m. Monday. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A rifle salute will be part of the Memorial Day ceremony at the Cortez Cemetery at 6 a.m. Monday. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Several local events will honor veterans for Memorial Day on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In Cortez, people are invited to a ceremony at 6 a.m. at the entrance of the Cortez Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The event features an honor guard and color guard, a rifle salute and a performance of taps. The significance of Memorial Day will be explained, and there will be a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>At 7 a.m., the public is invited to a breakfast at the American Legion Ute Mountain Post 75 in Cortez at 320 N. Harrison St.  Before the meal, veterans will be honored with a rifle salute and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:30 a.m. at the Dolores Community Center, the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a wreath ceremony. A wreath is placed on the Dolores River to commemorate sailors lost at sea.<\/p>\n<p>At 10 a.m. in Mancos, a ceremony will be held at the Cedar Grove cemetery on Road 41 south of town.<\/p>\n<p>At 11 a.m. in Rico, there will be a Memorial Day Ceremony at the Valley Rico Cemetery on Colorado Highway 145 with lunch served at the community center.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, poppy lapels will be for sale at City Market, Safeway, Wal-Mart and other places as a fundraiser for veteran groups and programs. The flowers symbolize the poppy fields at Flanders Field from World War I.<\/p>\n<p>American flags are being placed on the graves of veterans at area cemeteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Legion to host breakfast in Cortez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,568,28,83,29,598,497,185],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-events","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter","tag-public-holiday","tag-rico","tag-serving-veterans"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46533","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=46533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86919,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46533\/revisions\/86919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46533"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}