{"id":61821,"date":"2015-09-13T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61821"},"modified":"2015-09-13T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T12:52:56","slug":"andersonville-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61821","title":{"rendered":"Andersonville memorial service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61822\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-andersonville-prison-granger-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"2-andersonville-prison-granger\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-andersonville-prison-granger-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-andersonville-prison-granger-451x333.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-andersonville-prison-granger.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantamagazine.com\/georgiatravel\/150-years-later-a-funeral-for-andersonvilles-dead\/\">Atlanta Magazine<\/a> reports that on the 18th and 19th of September, at the site of the Civil War-era Andersonville POW camp near Atlanta, folks will be holding a memorial for the 13,000 who gave up their lives to disease, hunger and battle wounds;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Saturday, September 19, Andersonville National Cemetery will host a ceremony for those who made the ultimate sacrifice at the prison. The service will include a keynote speech by Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey; remarks by Georgia poet laureate Judson Mitcham and guest historian Dr. Lesley Gordon of University of Akron; honor guard from the Army, Navy, and Marines; and to stand in for the burial, a ceremonial casket filled with 13,000 paper stars decorated by children and community members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/ande\/planyourvisit\/cw150.htm\">National Park Service<\/a> has a schedule of events for the week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Magazine reports that on the 18th and 19th of September, at the site of the &hellip; <a title=\"Andersonville memorial service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61821\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andersonville memorial service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821","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=61821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}