{"id":40612,"date":"2025-11-10T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:34:08","slug":"26th-annual-orlando-veterans-day-parade-highlights-local-vets-in-central-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40612\/","title":{"rendered":"26th Annual Orlando Veterans\u2019 Day Parade highlights local vets in Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 26th Annual City of Orlando Veterans\u2019 Day Parade took place in Lake Nona, celebrating veterans from various branches of the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Sheriff John Mina participated in the parade, which started at Laureate Park Elementary School and ended at Lake Nona Town Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHappy Veteran\u2019s Day!\u201d said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, as the parade commenced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hundreds of spectators lined the streets in Lake Nona to show their support for the veterans. Veterans from various branches attended the parade, and the community\u2019s support touched many.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ROTC students from local schools also took part, marching in unison and emphasizing the theme of \u2018Service to Our Nation.\u2019 Orange County Sheriff John Mina also brought the department\u2019s newest member to introduce to the community during the parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26th Annual City of Orlando Veterans\u2019 Day Parade took place in Lake Nona, celebrating veterans from various&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27082,8132,27083,27085,5773,27084,27081,139,141,140,14607],"class_list":["post-40612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-branches-of-the-military","tag-buddy-dyer","tag-celebrating-veterans","tag-john-mina","tag-lake-nona","tag-lake-nona-town-center","tag-laureate-park-elementary-school","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612","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=40612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}