{"id":283729,"date":"2026-05-25T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:27:14","slug":"fort-lauderdale-honors-fallen-heroes-at-solemn-memorial-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283729\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale honors fallen heroes at solemn Memorial Day ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Fort Lauderdale held a ceremony on Memorial Day to honor our fallen service members who died while protecting the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tradition for so many \u2013 to start their Memorial Day honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was held at Lauderdale Memorial Park Cemetery on 4th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>The city had patriotic tributes, a parade of colors, an Armed Forces salute and an Honor Guard gun salute.<\/p>\n<p>Some of South Florida&#8217;s local veterans were recognized as well for their service, including a 105-year-old World War II veteran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say it, but I&#8217;m happy to be here,&#8221; World War II veteran Donald &#8220;Buster&#8221; Dennis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to say he feels blessed that he was able to, and of course his heart goes out to the many thousands that never got to come back,&#8221; Shari Johnston said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami&#8217;s Bri Buckley also spoke with another veteran who shared stories about his friends that lost their lives while serving.<\/p>\n<p>She will have more starting at 5 p.m. on CBS News Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Fort Lauderdale held a ceremony on Memorial Day to honor our fallen service members who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250,75415,807,3393],"class_list":["post-283729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-memorial-day","tag-south-florida","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283729","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=283729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}