{"id":19032,"date":"2010-05-09T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19032"},"modified":"2010-05-09T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:04:52","slug":"7th-grader-raises-money-to-mark-veterans-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19032","title":{"rendered":"7th grader raises money to mark Veterans&#8217; graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboatpilot.com\/news\/2010\/may\/09\/steamboat-7th-grader-raises-money-buy-headstones-v\/\">stories like this and I figure America is gonna be alright<\/a> after all;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wanted to find a project that was really close to my heart and for Memorial Day,\u201d Reina told Jennifer McCannon\u2019s seventh-grade language arts class during a presentation in January.<\/p>\n<p>After speaking with Stanko, Reina learned that 11 military veterans buried in Steamboat didn\u2019t have headstones.<\/p>\n<p>She decided to raise money to pay for headstones, like the ones issued by the VA, to replace the white crosses. Reina wanted to make sure the veterans buried in Steamboat without headstones weren\u2019t forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt honors them, how they died \u2014 sacrificing their life and helping our country,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So with the help of a local American Legion post commander, she&#8217;s raised $1200 of the $1500 they&#8217;d need to mark the graves of heroes. Read the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read stories like this and I figure America is gonna be alright after all; \u201cI &hellip; <a title=\"7th grader raises money to mark Veterans&#8217; graves\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19032\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7th grader raises money to mark Veterans&#8217; graves<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}