{"id":205837,"date":"2026-03-25T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:56:29","slug":"effort-underway-to-honor-women-veterans-with-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205837\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort Underway To Honor Women Veterans With Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ospreyobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/women-vets.jpg?fit=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/women-vets.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"women vets\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honoring the service and sacrifices of women who have worn uniforms of the United States military is the profound goal of a dedicated group of veterans who seek to establish such a monument at Hillsborough County\u2019s Veterans Memorial Park. <\/p>\n<p>Gathering together in person at special events and online under the Facebook banner of Women Veterans Monument \u2013 Hillsborough County, this group is beginning the process of bringing to fruition a tribute honoring their sisters-in-arms, from the Revolutionary War to the ongoing missions of today, with a physical presence at Veterans Memorial Park. <\/p>\n<p>A statement released by the group reads: \u201cThe most important thing about our project is that Women have served in this nation\u2019s military for 250 years from battlefield followers and nurses in the Revolutionary War to fully integrated members of every branch of military service. Women veterans often believe that their service was \u2018just a job\u2019 or unremarkable unless they were the \u2018first\u2019 to accomplish a specific feat. This project highlights that every woman who served proudly, whether in a combat role, supporting the war effort or providing medical care, is deserving of recognition. Women veterans remain underrepresented in public commemoration. To help rectify this, Hillsborough County seeks to honor all women who served, regardless of whether their role was glamorous or \u2018first,\u2019 ensuring their service, stories and sacrifices are recognized and remembered.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A monument of gratitude and respect for women veterans in Hillsborough County would be among others throughout the country and state, such as the national Military Women\u2019s Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Women Veterans Monuments at Veterans\u2019 Park in Okaloosa County that memorialize eight notable women veterans from throughout America\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<p>Information about the effort to establish a monument to women veterans can be found at the Women Veterans Monument \u2013 Hillsborough County Facebook page, which is also a source of information for other events, such as fundraisers, teas and luncheons, as well as topics of interest to women veterans.  <\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Veterans Memorial Park and Rear Admiral LeRoy Collins, Jr., Veterans Museum is located at 3602 N. U.S. 301 in Tampa. The park is open daily from 7 a.m.-5 p.m., and the museum is open from Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honoring the service and sacrifices of women who have worn uniforms of the United States military is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-205837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}