Memorial Day is a chance to honor America’s fallen heroes, and there are several opportunities to do that across Northwest Florida.<\/p>\n
NAS Pensacola will have a ceremony at Barrancas National Cemetery, hosted by the Gulf Coast Veterans Advocacy Council.<\/p>\n
That starts at 9 a.m. Visitors that are 18 years old and up must be escorted by someone with a Department of Defense I.D. card.<\/p>\n
Visitors will also have to go through a background screening at the Visitors Center at the main gate.<\/p>\n
The city of Milton will host a ceremony at the community center on Byrom Street.<\/p>\n
It starts at 10 a.m. and will feature local leaders, military personnel, and the Milton High School JROTC.<\/p>\n
Veterans Tribute Tower Committee is hosting a ceremony at the American Legion Post 235 in Fort Walton Beach.<\/p>\n
That event was moved indoors because of the weather and starts at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
The names of veterans who have passed since Memorial Day last year will be remembered. Guests will be asked to place small bouquets on the community wreath during the ceremony.<\/p>\n
The city of Crestview will have its ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Wall near the courthouse. The event starts at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial Day is a chance to honor America’s fallen heroes, and there are several opportunities to do that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-283517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283517","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=283517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}