{"id":4484,"date":"2015-04-08T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:05:06","slug":"honorary-first-defenders-allentown-chapter-76th-annual-meeting-and-dining-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Honorary First Defenders Allentown Chapter 76th Annual Meeting and Dining-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>76<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting and Dining-In<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Best Western, Routes 22 &amp; 512, Bethlehem, PA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>April 17, 2015 at 6 PM<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Honored service:\u00a0 United States Navy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Guest Speaker, Frank Ginther, former POW and Crew Member of the USS Pueblo<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Honorary First Defenders, Allentown Chapter will hold its 76<sup>th<\/sup> annual Meeting and Dining-In on April 17<sup>th<\/sup> at the Best Western in Bethlehem.\u00a0 The honored service is the United States Navy, with Mr. Frank Ginther as the guest of honor.\u00a0 Mr. Ginther, former Prisoner of War and crew member of the USS Pueblo. The night will conclude with a Change of Command ceremony of the HFD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 PM &#8211; cocktails<\/li>\n<li>7 PM &#8211; Dinner and Ceremony begins<\/li>\n<li>Colors presented<\/li>\n<li>Mess Rules are followed \u2013 all donations support the local reserve\/guard units<\/li>\n<li>Remarks by the guest of honor, MG William Monk III<\/li>\n<li>Business Dinner Meeting, HFD Commander MSG Lucille M. Gross<\/li>\n<li>New member indoctrination<\/li>\n<li>Change of Command Ceremony, Incoming HFD Commander \u2013 LTC Donald W. Davis<\/li>\n<li>Retire the Colors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoraryfirstdefenders.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.honoraryfirstdefenders.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Viola C. Hertzog, HFD Public Information Officer,<\/strong> <strong>610-782-3295<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=3023\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3170,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Honorary-First-Defenders-Allentown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484"}],"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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}