{"id":73139,"date":"2017-06-30T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73139"},"modified":"2017-06-30T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:36:19","slug":"lawrenceville-police-department-steps-up-for-navy-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73139","title":{"rendered":"Lawrenceville Police Department steps up for Navy vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/gwinnett-county\/family-devastated-navy-cant-provide-full-military-honors-for-vet\/544895004\">WSB-TV<\/a> when Chief Petty Officer Laughlin passed his family asked the Navy to represent at his funeral;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;90-percent of what he talked about was being in the Navy.  All the trips he went on and the missions, and he&#8217;d go around and brag to anybody who would listen,\u201d son Lance Laughlin said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Navy would provide a two or three man team to fold the American flag and play taps, but pall bearers and an honor guard to fire a 21 gun salute are only reserved for those on active duty or recipients of the Medal of Honor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the Lawrenceville, Georgia Police Department stepped into the gap for the family. According to the family, Chief Laughlin had served during three wars in the Navy. Thanks to the police department for  stepping up for a family that has already sacrificed so much already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to WSB-TV when Chief Petty Officer Laughlin passed his family asked the Navy to represent &hellip; <a title=\"Lawrenceville Police Department steps up for Navy vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73139\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawrenceville Police Department steps up for Navy vet<\/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":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139","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=73139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}