{"id":67509,"date":"2017-05-29T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fallen-veterans-honored-on-memorial-day-in-mancos\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:37:44","slug":"fallen-veterans-honored-on-memorial-day-in-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fallen-veterans-honored-on-memorial-day-in-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen veterans honored on Memorial Day in Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:d7bf5028-b8f5-4947-a669-f0e89fe8d8c8 --><\/p>\n<p>About 30 people gathered for a somber Memorial Day ceremony at Cedar Grove Cemetery south of Mancos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5231 and the VFW Auxiliary placed flags and flowers at the graves of veterans in the cemetery and at the veterans memorial in the cemetery. They honored fallen veterans with \u201cTaps\u201d and a rifle salute.<\/p>\n<p>VFW Commander David Johnson gave an emotional speech, saying none have given more to give freedom to others than American veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we pay tribute to those patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also asked that those in attendance remember military service members who are still missing and think about their friends and family members.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told the crowd that it is important for the youth of tomorrow understand the sacrifice veterans make for their country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith heavy hearts, we remember those lost,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jacobk@the-journal.com\">jacobk@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018With heavy hearts, we remember those lost\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,83,60,29,184],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-veterans-affairs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67509","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=67509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67509"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}