{"id":204264,"date":"2026-05-28T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204264\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:09:12","slug":"a-ceremony-of-remembrance-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204264\/","title":{"rendered":"A ceremony of remembrance \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 27. 2026 11:33AM<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY SCOTT M. NAGYRepresentatives from local veterans groups fire off a salute to honor fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony May 25 at the Whitehall Township Municipal Building, 3219 MacArthur Road. The joint veterans program included American Legion Post 367, Fullerton; American Legion Jones Quigg Post 739, Hokendauqua; Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7293, Egypt; and Whitehall Police Honor Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from local veterans groups honor fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony May 25 at the Whitehall Township Municipal Building, 3219 MacArthur Road. The joint veterans program included American Legion Post 367, Fullerton; American Legion Jones Quigg Post 739, Hokendauqua; Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7293, Egypt; and Whitehall Police Honor Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Sherer, a retired U.S. Navy commander, shares his thoughts as the event\u2019s guest speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Left: Veterans listen intently during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Above: Members of Whitehall Police Department salute to show their respect.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Bohner III, commander of the Hokendauqua American Legion, serves as the emcee for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Residents gather around a veterans memorial at the municipal building.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehall Township Mayor Joseph Marx Jr. addresses those who gathered for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 27. 2026 11:33AM PRESS PHOTOS BY SCOTT M. NAGYRepresentatives from local veterans groups fire off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-204264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}