{"id":5505,"date":"2025-10-15T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:34:09","slug":"florida-veterans-hall-of-fame-society-inducts-two-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5505\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Veterans\u2019 Hall of Fame Society inducts two locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Government and the Florida Veterans&#8217; Hall of Fame Society recognized two local veterans at the Leon County Courthouse on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>One of whom, Colonel Augustus Aikens Jr., is the namesake of the Leon County Courthouse.Colonel Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Mohr was also honored.Watch the video to hear from the Aikens in regards to how much this achievement means to him.<\/p>\n<p>BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p>This year, Leon County Government and the Florida Veterans\u2019 Hall of Fame Society recognized over 20 veterans of the State of Florida for their accomplishments, including two on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among those honored stood Colonel Augustus Aikens Jr., the namesake of the Leon County Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>The retired veteran would devote three decades to the Florida Army National Guard, serving as a staff judge advocate, field artillery officer, military police officer, and military judge.<\/p>\n<p>During his judgeship, Aikens would play a pivotal role in developing the Leon County Veterans Treatment Court, which helps give veterans a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran went on to share what this achievement means to be inducted into the Florida Veterans\u2019 Hall of Fame Society.<\/p>\n<p>Aikens says, &#8220;Well, it makes me feel really, really great, um, not so much for me, but what&#8217;s really important is that I had an opportunity to work with some really great people in the veterans treatment court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aikens retired last November after 27 years of service.<\/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><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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":"DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Government and the Florida Veterans&#8217; Hall of Fame Society recognized two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,6065,6066,6067,1548,6068,6069,4457,6064,6070,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-augustus-aikens","tag-chuck-mohr","tag-florida-veterans-hall-of-fame","tag-good-news","tag-inductee","tag-induction-ceremony","tag-leon-county-courthouse","tag-leon-county-government","tag-positive","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","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=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}