{"id":11106,"date":"2016-05-10T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-veterans-honor-flight\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:00:40","slug":"letter-veterans-honor-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-veterans-honor-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Veterans honor flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently returned from a veterans honor flight to Washington, D.C., the purpose being to see the war memorials and other important sights in D.C. It was a fun and inspirational trip with an overnight at Portland, Oregon, each way to break up the long flight. This was completely free to veterans, who each travel with a \u201cguardian,\u201d so even wheelchair users can go. Accolades from masses of people at airports are hugely offered, including from our own governor and the Anchorage mayor at Anchorage airport.<\/p>\n<p>Any Korea or World War ll veteran is eligible for the next flight in October of this year (they hope eventually to get to Vietnam veterans).<\/p>\n<p>To apply for inclusion, please write to: The Last Frontier Honor Flight, POB 520095, Big Lake, AK 99652.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ward Lamb,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently returned from a veterans honor flight to Washington, D.C., the purpose being to see the war memorials and other important sights in D.C. It was a fun and inspirational trip with an overnight at Portland, Oregon, each way to break up the long flight. This was completely free to veterans, who each travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}