{"id":401597,"date":"2026-09-16T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401597\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:32:11","slug":"jacksonville-veterans-to-hold-pow-mia-recognition-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401597\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville veterans to hold POW\/MIA recognition day ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; On Friday, veterans and families will gather at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Jacksonville to honor prisoners of war and service members who went missing in action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It will be on Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 pm at the Vietnam Memorial, Lejeune Memorial Gardens at Montford Point Road, Jacksonville, NC 28540. The event will be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event will be hosted by the Rolling Thunder NC-5 chapter. It will feature the Missing Man Table Ceremony By NC-5 as well as the Walk of the Wall with Flame of Freedom\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillenc.gov\/m\/newsflash\/Home\/Detail\/1700\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillenc.gov\/m\/newsflash\/Home\/Detail\/1700\">link<\/a> to the Jacksonville city website.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; On Friday, veterans and families will gather at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-401597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401597","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=401597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}