{"id":4422,"date":"2026-05-25T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:39:13","slug":"memorial-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/memorial-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-envira-envira-gallery\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-wrap-4426\" class=\"envira-gallery-wrap envira-gallery-theme-base envira-lightbox-theme-base\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><div data-row-height=\"150\" data-gallery-theme=\"normal\" id=\"envira-gallery-4426\" class=\"envira-gallery-public envira-gallery-justified-public envira-gallery-0-columns envira-clear enviratope envira-gallery-css-animations\" data-envira-columns=\"0\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-4427\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-1 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 1px; 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This holiday, originally called \u201cDecoration Day\u201d, was started in 1868, three years after the conclusion of the American Civil War. Its purpose was to honor&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;of America\u2019s fallen soldiers- regardless of whether they fought on the Union or Confederate side. Eventually, this holiday would be expanded to commemorate&nbsp;<em>every<\/em>&nbsp;American service member who made the ultimate sacrifice for this great nation that we proudly call \u201chome\u201d. The included photos were taken at the Gettysburg Battlefield in the Gettysburg National Military Park, where our executive staff paid respects to the fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to invite you all to join us in taking time today to reflect on those sacrifices, and to offer a moment of silence for those brave, selfless individuals who gave so much for us all so that we could live in the \u201cthe land of the free and the home of the brave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many of us celebrate Memorial Day with barbecues, parades, etc. it <span class=\"custom_excerpt\"> &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[180,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-locations"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thrivevets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260525-Memorial-Day-blog.jpg?fit=815%2C354&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrivevets.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}