{"id":114612,"date":"2022-11-09T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114612"},"modified":"2022-11-09T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T01:50:50","slug":"invite-allentown-veterans-day-hometown-heroes-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114612","title":{"rendered":"INVITE: Allentown Veterans Day Hometown Heroes Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of Veterans Day, the City of Allentown is honoring its Hometown Heroes with a ceremony on\u00a0<strong>Friday, November 11 at 1:00 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0at the flagpole in\u00a0<strong>Cedar Beach Park<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Hometown Heroes Banner Program is a living tribute created for the community to recognize and honor our Allentown veterans who have served our country in the United States Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The banners are displayed from the month of May through Veterans Day in in observance of all Military Branch birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the banners will be removed and stored until the same period in 2023, at which time they will be re-displayed.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Allentown has invited our Hometown Heroes and their friends and family, and also invite local veterans and the community to a brief ceremony where the Allentown Police Department Honor Guard will present the colors and perform a rifle salute, and a bugler will play Taps prior to the removal of the banners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veterans Day Hometown Heroes Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, November 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cedar Beach Park (2600 Parkway Blvd, Allentown, PA 18104)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nConnor Corpora<br \/>\nExecutive Assistant<br \/>\nMayor&#8217;s Office City of Allentown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov\">http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of Veterans Day, the City of Allentown is honoring its Hometown Heroes with a ceremony on\u00a0Friday, November 11 at 1:00 p.m.\u00a0at the flagpole in\u00a0Cedar Beach Park. The Allentown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INVITE: Allentown Veterans Day Hometown Heroes Ceremony<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/allentown-Veterans-day-22.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}