{"id":283693,"date":"2026-05-25T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:49:10","slug":"military-veterans-join-memorial-day-ruck-march-in-fort-lauderdale-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283693\/","title":{"rendered":"Military veterans join Memorial Day ruck march in Fort Lauderdale Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 10:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>Power Veterans initiative meets at Las Olas Oceanside Park Beach <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Anthony Perryman and Thomas Cappelletti were among the U.S. military veterans who met for a walk on Memorial Day morning in Fort Lauderdale Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perryman and Cappelletti said the ruck march, a walk while carrying weight on their backs, was their way to mourn fallen service members. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFor vets especially, it\u2019s a day to take a little time to think,\u201d Cappelletti said. \u201cI recommend everybody does a little something just to show some support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerveterans.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.powerveterans.com\/\">Power Veterans<\/a>, an initiative that aims to empower through mentorship, benefits, and career growth, walked together at Las Olas Oceanside Park Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, I did have some soldiers and battle buddies who didn\u2019t make it today,\u201d said Perryman, an organizer. \u201cIt\u2019s just tough. It\u2019s just something to commemorate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The National Moment of Remembrance\u2019s tradition is a moment of silence at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More on Memorial Day <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Michaila Hightower\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/5883cd03-bb16-4471-b1.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Michaila Hightower<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Michaila Hightower joined the Local 10 News team in January 2025 as a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 10:29 AM Power Veterans initiative meets at Las Olas Oceanside Park Beach FORT LAUDERDALE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-283693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283693","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=283693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}