{"id":40493,"date":"2014-05-29T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=40493"},"modified":"2014-05-29T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:59:10","slug":"memorial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/memorial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Ceremony planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14may\/paradeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>Friday, May 30<!--more--><br \/>\nMemorial Day observance will begin with a 6 pm parade on Friday, May 30.<br \/>\nThe parade route begins behind the Wilson Center, marches through downtown St. Johns and continues to the Memorial Day tribute at Mt. Rest Cemetery.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14may\/parade.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nAll Veterans and active duty Military are invited to join in the parade. Vintage military vehicles will be available to provide transportation for any Veteran requiring assistance. Parade units will gather in the parking lot behind the Wilson Center at 5:30 pm.<br \/>\nThe Parade will include the St. Johns Honor Guard, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post # 4113, American Legion Post #153, the Clinton\/Gratiot County Chapter #64 of Disabled American Veterans, Voiture #868 of the 40 et 8, 82nd Airborne, the American Legion Riders, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp #58, Sons of the American Legion, American Legion and VFW auxiliaries, Military Moms, banners for the Fallen Heroes of Clinton County, vintage military vehicles, and the Redwing Marching Band with escort from the St. Johns Police Department and Clinton Area Ambulance.<br \/>\nThe solemn observance at Mt. Rest Cemetery will honor the fallen veterans of America with presentation of wreathes representing the All Veterans Memorial, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, 40 et 8, Merchant Marine, American Legion Auxiliary, Sons of the American Legion, Clinton County Sheriff Department and the St. Johns Fire Department.<br \/>\nThe service will include a message from guest speaker, Brett Holt, a 21 Gun Military Salute, echoing Taps, patriotic selections from the Redwing Marching Band and the Mint City Singers.<br \/>\nPersons interested in joining the marching units or Memorial Day Ceremony are encouraged to contact Ervin Currie at: (989) 668-0080 or (989) 307-5963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}