{"id":31722,"date":"2025-11-02T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:54:06","slug":"lubbock-kicks-off-veterans-week-with-parade-celebrating-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31722\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock kicks off Veterans Week with parade celebrating service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart and Los Hermanos Familia kicked off Veterans Week with a parade Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Veterans, families, floats and bands made their way from First Baptist Church on Broadway to the Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The theme for this year\u2019s parade was \u201cserving one another,\u201d a celebration of the numerous generations and families who continue to serve the country with dignity and pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Only one percent of Americans serve in the military, and fewer than 10 percent of those become veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The parade and Veterans Week is an effort to show gratitude and community for those who risked their lives for freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart and Los Hermanos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-31722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}