{"id":30031,"date":"2012-05-19T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30031"},"modified":"2012-05-19T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T02:13:14","slug":"more-on-the-parade-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30031","title":{"rendered":"More on the Parade In Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure Jonn will be back soon with some good photos from the event, but just wanted to pass along that the parade was a success and had some media coverage as well. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/militarytimes.com\/news\/2012\/05\/ap-military-virginia-parade-honors-iraq-war-veterans-051912\/\" target=\"_blank\">Military Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of people turned out for the parade, which ended with a free outdoor concert and what organizers call a veterans&#8217; resource exposition. Active-duty personnel and veterans from all military service branches marched in the parade alongside high school marching bands, Army and Air Force units and the Marine Band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled that everybody took the time out to support the military,&#8221; said Army Staff Sgt. Jason Harich, a parade participant who has served two tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my 17 years, I have never seen an event like this, and I am honored and thrilled that it is being done,&#8221; Harich said. &#8220;This is how I like to see our community, together as one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are also some photos at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/2012\/may\/19\/thousands-turn-out-honor-iraq-afghanistan-veterans-ar-1927335\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond-Times Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure Jonn will be back soon with some good photos from the event, but just &hellip; <a title=\"More on the Parade In Richmond\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30031\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on the Parade In Richmond<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30031","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\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}