{"id":43753,"date":"2025-11-12T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43753\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:05:16","slug":"jacksonville-heroes-honored-at-annual-veterans-day-observance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43753\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville heroes honored at annual Veterans Day observance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Disabled American Veterans held a ceremony Tuesday morning to honor heroes in Jacksonville and reflect on their sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vietnam War veterans were a special focus of the event and received honorary pins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guest speaker Paul Levesque, a Marine Vietnam veteran, spoke about the importance of recognizing those who served. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI wear that same pin. Some veterans were missed along the way, and we wanted to make sure they were honored today,\u201d he said. \u201cNovember 11th marks the end of the Vietnam War commemoration, so we especially wanted to recognize those veterans here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chapter 16 Commander Randall Cox talked about the privileges of living in the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019ve been around the world,\u201d Cox said. \u201cWe have a lot of freedoms and rights that many other countries don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A DAV member since 2015, Cox said he\u2019s proud to represent the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m very proud to represent the Disabled American Veterans,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an organization that has grown a lot since it was founded in the early 1900s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Disabled American Veterans held a ceremony Tuesday morning to honor heroes in Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28728,28729,116,118,117,15284,4481,1854,12343,28726,28727,27979,13469,3393,14607,1932,28725,4480],"class_list":["post-43753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-dav","tag-disabled-veterans","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-marines","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-onslow-county","tag-paul-levesque","tag-randall-cox","tag-vet","tag-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-day","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43753","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=43753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}