{"id":328621,"date":"2026-05-23T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328621\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:16:10","slug":"volunteers-place-flags-on-veterans-graves-ahead-of-memorial-day-in-kern-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328621\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers place flags on veterans\u2019 graves ahead of Memorial Day in Kern County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Volunteers spent Friday afternoon placing American flags on veterans\u2019 graves ahead of Memorial Day, continuing a tradition organizers say helps the community recognize the sacrifices made by local veterans and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Veterans Service Department will host its annual Memorial Day ceremony at 9 a.m. Monday at Historic Union Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b1b7c506-1ceb-40ea-b6c0-34185b036a5b-Sequence_LINARES_MEMORIALDAYFLAGHONORFALLENHEROS_0001_frame_126.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jose Lopez, director of the Kern County Veterans Service Department, said a wide range of community members turned out to help with the flag placement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had Garces High School, probation, nurses, Boy Scout troops, Liberty High, a lot of amazing people from the community lending a hand,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0307ce67-8b93-46e2-88f5-e9769af9f25b-Sequence_LINARES_MEMORIALDAYFLAGHONORFALLENHEROS_0001_frame_469.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s Memorial Day ceremony is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Volunteers spent Friday afternoon placing American flags on veterans\u2019 graves ahead of Memorial Day,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-328621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}