{"id":38319,"date":"2018-11-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/veterans-day-events-honor-centennial\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:00:00","slug":"veterans-day-events-honor-centennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/veterans-day-events-honor-centennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day events honor centennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Veterans Day marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the World War I, and multiple groups are holding their annual events in commemoration. <\/p>\n<p>Starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Taku Post 5559 is hosting a ceremony to honor those who have served. The event takes place at Centennial Hall, and doors open at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard Rear Admiral Matthew T. Bell is delivering the main address Sunday, and the ceremony as a whole is expected to last 30-45 minutes. It is free and open to all. The VFW and American Legion alternate the role of hosting every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeast Alaska Native Veterans are hosting a lunch immediately after the ceremony at Centennial Hall. The lunch takes place at nearby Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall starting at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>According to Census.gov statistics in 2015, Alaska has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/visualizations\/2015\/comm\/percent-veterans.html\" target=\"_blank\">the highest percentage of veterans per capita<\/a> of any state in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been 100 years since the end of the First World War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[322,75,365],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-events","tag-local-news","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38319","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38319"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}