{"id":289359,"date":"2026-09-19T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289359\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:36:11","slug":"never-forget-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289359\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Forget \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 18. 2026 09:28AM<\/p>\n<p>Trexlertown Fire Company firefighter Steve Oplinger sang the national anthem at the 9\/11 Remembrance Ceremony held at the Good Will Fire Co. No. 1, Trexlertown on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Upper Macungie Township Fire Department salute as firefighter Steve Oplinger sings the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>ABOVE: The Brandywine Colonial Fife and Drum Corps leads honored guests and speakers during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Pipers Greg Ross, Jim Baldree and James Ruhf perform.<\/p>\n<p>LEFT: Pennsylvania State Police Nathan Honey, Upper Macungie Township Police Officer Tim Kline, Trexlertown Chief Emeritus Leroy Gross and Macungie Ambulance Corps Operations Manager Rachael Diehl place wreaths.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELANDMembers of the American Legion Post 217 Topton Honor Guard fire a three-volley salute to the fallen during the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 18. 2026 09:28AM Trexlertown Fire Company firefighter Steve Oplinger sang the national anthem at the 9\/11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-289359","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\/289359","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=289359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}