{"id":286790,"date":"2026-07-04T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:58:09","slug":"active-duty-naval-officer-from-seattle-thrilled-by-patriotism-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286790\/","title":{"rendered":"Active duty Naval officer from Seattle thrilled by patriotism in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based Navy reserve officer Ben Brown took in the boat parade and air show for the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/04\/us-news\/4th-of-july-celebrations-for-americas-250th-birthday-across-usa-live-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 250 celebration from Battery Park City\u2019s Wagner Park<\/a> \u2014 and said he\u2019s shocked at how many people have stopped to take photos with him in his uniform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was kind of surprised. I mean, you know, coming from Seattle, the flavor is a little different sometimes,\u201d Brown, who was wearing his Navy whites, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39887549\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ben-brown-navy-reserve-officer-133257589.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Brown, a Navy reserve officer, smiles at the camera while wearing a white uniform with medals and a gold belt buckle.\" class=\"wp-image-39887549\"  \/>Seattle-based Navy reserve officer Ben Brown (above) said America\u2019s 250th anniversary in the Big Apple is not just a vacation destination, but an invitation to revisit the founding of our nation. Trista Panagakos<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39887547\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP_America_25__Independence_Day_39188-8c582-0.jpg\" alt=\"Jets fly over the New York City skyline and One World Trade Center, leaving red, white, and blue smoke trails, as ships sail in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-39887547\"  \/>Tall ships parade under flyovers during the International Parade of Sail, part of Sail250, a gathering of tall ships and military ships on July 4, 2026, in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to see everybody is still kind of excited about the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The serviceman said America\u2019s 250th anniversary in the Big Apple is not just a vacation destination, but an invitation to revisit the founding of our nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just an exciting time to kind of renew our founding purpose,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our country, with all the tumultuous stuff that\u2019s been going on lately, I think it\u2019s kind of nice to see everybody still kind of excited about the Fourth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown said he plans on spending the entire day touring Manhattan as celebrations continue across the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle-based Navy reserve officer Ben Brown took in the boat parade and air show for the 250 celebration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33453,40550,12560,9,24,55,54,56,87,58],"class_list":["post-286790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-america-250","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-navy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}