{"id":82120,"date":"2019-12-11T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=82120"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:42:37","slug":"lou-veterans-to-be-honored-at-holiday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/lou-veterans-to-be-honored-at-holiday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"LOU Veterans to be Honored at Holiday Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">On <strong>Saturday, December 14<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Garden of Memories Oxford <\/strong>will be among 1,600\u00a0memorial sites nationwide\u00a0participating in a ceremony to place wreaths upon the\u00a0graves of US veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnyone is welcome to attend this event and\u00a0respectfully pay tribute to the brave men and\u00a0women who have served our\u00a0country,\u201d\u00a0said <strong>Matthew\u00a0Malone<\/strong>, director of cemetery\u00a0services at Garden of Memories Oxford.\u00a0\u201cWe want to embrace the families who have\u00a0lost\u00a0a serviceman or -woman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony will begin at 11 am with opening remarks\u00a0from Malone. After these sentiments, the group will then\u00a0place wreaths on the\u00a0graves of each veteran laid to rest in the cemetery. To learn more about the\u00a0schedule of events, or to\u00a0get involved in the event, visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeteriesofnorthms.org\/wreaths-across-america\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cemeteriesofnorthms.org\/wreaths-across-america<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to give members of the&nbsp;community the opportunity to pay tribute to those who are currently serving and&nbsp;have&nbsp;served for our country,\u201d said Malone. \u201cEach sponsored wreath will be&nbsp;placed on the grave of a veteran, honoring them&nbsp;for their service to our&nbsp;country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently 35 veterans buried at\u00a0Garden of Memories Oxford, which is situated\u00a0just north of town, adjacent to\u00a0<strong>The Orchard Church<\/strong> off <strong>Highway 7<\/strong>. The cemetery provides\u00a0a dedicated Veterans\u00a0Garden for veterans and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event\u00a0will not only honor each veteran laid to rest at Garden of Memories Oxford,\u00a0but\u00a0also each specific branch of the military.\u00a0A flag-retiring ceremony will be carried out\u00a0by local\u00a0Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Boy Scouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Garden of Memories Oxford\u00a0and its dedicated Veterans Garden, or to take part in <strong>Wreaths Across\u00a0America<\/strong>,\u00a0contact Matthew Malone at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:mmalone@colemanfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">mmalone@colemanfuneralhome.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0(662) 234-1323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sponsor one or more wreaths,\u00a0visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wreathsacrossamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wreathsacrossamerica.org<\/a>\u00a0and search for\u00a0Garden of Memories Oxford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, December 14,\u00a0Garden of Memories Oxford will be among 1,600\u00a0memorial sites nationwide\u00a0participating in a ceremony to place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":82121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11658],"tags":[15704,15705,15707,15706],"class_list":["post-82120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-garden-of-memories-oxford","tag-matthew-malone","tag-the-orchard-church","tag-wreaths-across-america"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-11-Wreaths.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}