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<\/a>BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\nVeterans across western Pennsylvania are being honored today with ceremonies and parades commemorating their service. <\/p>\n
The National Cemetery of the Alleghenies will host its annual Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. The event will feature a wreath-laying, speeches, a moment of silence, three rifle volleys, and the playing of Taps. Jack Wagner, a Marine Corps veteran and former Pennsylvania auditor general, will serve as the keynote speaker. Patriotic music will be performed by the Canon McMillan High School Band and Chorus, as well as a bagpiper. <\/p>\n
In Upper St. Clair, a Veterans Day observance ceremony will take place at Veterans Park at 9:30 a.m. <\/p>\n
Several parades are planned across the region. The Butler Veterans Day Parade will begin at 10:40 a.m. on Main Street, with a pause at 11 a.m. for a salute marking the Armistice that ended World War I. <\/p>\n
The Westmoreland Veterans Day Parade will start at 10 a.m. at Westmoreland City Hall, followed by a ceremony at Westmoreland Veterans Park. A parade in Mount Pleasant Borough is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. <\/p>\n
In Beaver County, the annual Veterans Day Parade, organized by Unionville American Legion Post 512, will begin at 10:30 a.m. along Third Street in Beaver Borough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veterans Day ceremonies and parades planned across western Pennsylvania BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. \u2014 Veterans across western Pennsylvania are being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[458,131858,5503,26151,6065,131860,50206,42338,6554,28,30,29,41223,43468,895,42340,3244,120260,15041,131857,131859,4328,1419,131861],"class_list":["post-325455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-a-m","tag-butler-veterans-day-parade","tag-ceremony","tag-communities","tag-flag","tag-jack-wagner","tag-marine-corps-veteran","tag-moment","tag-parade","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-playing","tag-serve","tag-service","tag-silence","tag-speech","tag-taps","tag-veterans-day","tag-veterans-day-ceremony","tag-veterans-park","tag-western-pa","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-wreath-laying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325455","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=325455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}