{"id":299480,"date":"2026-10-04T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299480\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:00:06","slug":"american-legion-district-11-post-207-to-mark-yorktown-victory-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299480\/","title":{"rendered":"American Legion District 11, Post 207 to mark Yorktown victory \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Legion District 11 and West Scranton American Legion Kosciuszko Post 207 will commemorate the victory at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781, which marked the final land battle in the American Revolution with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the British army. The commemoration will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, at the statue of George Washington on the corner of Linden Street and North Washington Avenue in Scranton. The event will consist of a wreath laying, some short remarks, songs, prayers and a firing salute. Rain date is Oct. 25, same time. The public is invited to this commemoration, also marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. From left: John Techmanski, Jerry Auriemma, John Wasko, Stan Kowaleski and GM Kofira, members of Post 207; and Charles Spano, program presenter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Legion District 11 and West Scranton American Legion Kosciuszko Post 207 will commemorate the victory at Yorktown,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-299480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299480","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=299480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}