{"id":284025,"date":"2026-05-25T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:39:07","slug":"leon-county-community-honors-fallen-veterans-with-flag-laying-ceremony-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284025\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County community honors fallen veterans with flag-laying ceremony Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHWEST TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Congressman Al Lawson brought community members together for a flag-laying ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery in Leon County to honor fallen veterans this Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Leon County community honors fallen veterans with flag laying ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>Elected leaders and neighbors planted flags to recognize the sacrifice of those laid to rest at the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the experience was really great&#8230;People got a chance to really meet each other and not be in a commission meeting and somebody fussing with each other and to see the value of what Memorial Day is all about. It&#8217;s not just about the barbecue, it&#8217;s about honoring our heroes all over America, you know, that sacrifice for us to have the freedom that we have now,&#8221; Lawson said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson says the initiative started after he noticed there weren&#8217;t any memorial ceremonies held to recognize the approximately 300 veterans laid to rest at the cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>As the event grows in size year after year, Lawson hopes more neighbors can walk away with a sense of what Memorial Day is all about.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><br \/>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime<br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><br \/>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHWEST TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Congressman Al Lawson brought community members together for a flag-laying ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,23346,120681,120682,28,9127,75415,120683,11624,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-284025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-al-lawson","tag-fall-soliders","tag-flag-laying-ceremony","tag-florida","tag-greenwood-cemetery","tag-memorial-day","tag-military-tribute","tag-northwest-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284025","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=284025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}