{"id":249524,"date":"2026-04-28T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:15:08","slug":"honor-flight-taking-100-florida-vets-on-whirlwind-tour-of-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249524\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Flight taking 100 Florida vets on whirlwind tour of nation\u2019s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; About 100 than 80 Florida veterans, whose service spans decades from Would War II, Korea and Vietnam, boarded a predawn flight in Punta Gorda Tuesday, heading to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Southwest Florida Honor Flight will take the vets to hallowed ground, as they witness the changing of the guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The veterans will also have the chance to visit the Military Women\u2019s memorial, the FDR Memorial, the World War II Memorial and witness a performance of the U.S. Marine Corps\u2019 Silent Drill Team at the Lincoln Memorial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The day will end with flag-folding ceremonies at the Korean War and Vietnam War memorials before heading back to Punta Gorda. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; About 100 than 80 Florida veterans, whose service spans decades from Would War&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20334,28,30,29,109314,2327,109313,3393],"class_list":["post-249524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-flight","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gorda","tag-honor","tag-punta","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249524","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=249524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}