{"id":6871,"date":"2020-05-25T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=6871"},"modified":"2020-05-25T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:41:02","slug":"tallahassee-vfw-holds-memorial-day-service-despite-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassee-vfw-holds-memorial-day-service-despite-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee VFW Holds Memorial Day Service Despite Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee&#8217;s Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) held a memorial day service despite concerns of spreading the coronavirus. Members say it was important to respect solders who have passed.<\/p>\n<p>Families and retired service members gathered inside the gates of the VFW Cemetary. They&#8217;re holding a ceremony to honor soldiers who lost their lives. Attendees salute a flag at half-staff and place flowers and wreaths near the flag pole. Afterward, people will break off to place small flags on the graves of soldiers. Debora Jones Mann is a VFW member who took part in the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want the pandemic to have these veterans not be honored. It&#8217;s really important that they get remembered, and they get honored because they have served the ultimate sacrifice, and if it [were] not for them, we would all not have our freedoms that we\u2014that we don&#8217;t even think about, we kind of take them for granted,&#8221; Mann says.<\/p>\n<p>She says the pandemic isn&#8217;t stopping those in the military from serving their country.<\/p>\n<p>Another VFW member, Frank Roycraft, says that ceremony has gone on for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And hopefully will go on as long as there&#8217;s a United States of America to remember these people, and to let us all fully appreciate the freedoms that we have because of the sacrifices that were made by these people,&#8221; Roycraft says.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&amp;utmdt=Tallahassee+VFW+Holds+Memorial+Day+Service+Despite+Pandemic&amp;utme=8(APIKey)9(MDA4MzU1MzUzMDEzMTkyMzAwMzY5MjY1Mw004)\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6872,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tallahassee VFW Holds Memorial Day Service Despite Pandemic - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/tallahassee-vfw-holds-memorial-day-service-despite-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tallahassee VFW Holds Memorial Day Service Despite Pandemic - WFSU Local Routes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tallahassee&#039;s Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) held a memorial day service despite concerns of spreading the coronavirus. 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