JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The City of Jacksonville\u2019s Military Affairs and Veterans Department will host its annual Memorial Day observance on Monday, May 25, at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall downtown.<\/p>\n
The community is invited to attend the free event honoring service members who died while serving in the military.<\/p>\n
Veterans, active-duty military members, civic leaders and Gold Star Families are expected to attend.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The pre-ceremony begins at 8 a.m., with the official ceremony starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Wall, located at 1145 East Adams Street. <\/p>\n The event will include patriotic music, ceremonial presentations, wreath presentations and remarks honoring fallen service members.<\/p>\n Free parking will be available in Lot P.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The City of Jacksonville\u2019s Military Affairs and Veterans Department will host its annual Memorial Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61593,1964,457,17724,5034,6126,38440,21534,166,5507,3646,21535,25679,35800,2457,2327,16783,116,118,117,4738,75415,118097,2583,3445,21542,15988,118098,80613,726,118099,31758,1617,13469,18722,118100],"class_list":["post-276581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-american-culture","tag-american-flag","tag-armed-forces","tag-cemetery","tag-ceremony","tag-close-up","tag-color-image","tag-conflict","tag-day","tag-death","tag-democracy","tag-flag","tag-freedom","tag-grave","tag-history","tag-honor","tag-horizontal","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-memorial","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-event","tag-military","tag-north-america","tag-patriotism","tag-photography","tag-praying","tag-remembrance-day","tag-service","tag-tombstone","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-veteran","tag-war","tag-war-memorial-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276581","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=276581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}