{"id":342281,"date":"2026-07-16T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:33:30","slug":"cape-coral-group-raising-400k-for-womens-military-monument-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342281\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral group raising $400K for women’s military monument | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A first-of-its-kind monument honoring women in the military is being proposed to rise in Cape Coral.<\/p>\n

Sisters in Arms of Cape Coral is pushing to raise $400,000 for a military women’s monument at Four Mile Cove. Organizers said women have stood on the front lines for generations, but their stories are too often overlooked.<\/p>\n

“Women have been serving this nation since the Revolutionary War, and oftentimes that goes unrecognized compared to our male counterparts,” a representative said. “And so, when we go out to the Ecological Preserve, we want to see a monument that represents all women veterans that have served this country in all branches of service.”<\/p>\n

Donations\u00a0are\u00a0now\u00a0open<\/a>.\u00a0Organizers hope this monument will stand as a permanent tribute and spark new conversations for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A first-of-its-kind monument honoring women in the military is being proposed to rise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-342281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342281","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=342281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}