{"id":255486,"date":"2022-08-29T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255486"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:20:28","slug":"nd-veterans-cemetery-to-observe-30th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255486","title":{"rendered":"ND Veterans Cemetery To Observe 30th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mandan  (National Guard) \u2013 The North Dakota Veterans Cemetery will host a ceremony in observance of its 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary on Aug. 31, 2022. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. (Central Time) at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndguard.nd.gov\/veterans-cemetery\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota Veterans Cemetery<\/a>, 6.5 miles south of Mandan on North Dakota Highway 1806. The public and media are invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants are encouraged to bring lawn chairs due to limited seating. Handicap-marked vehicles are encouraged to arrive before 12:15 p.m. Drivers should ensure handicap credentials and decals are readily visible to parking attendants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheduled to render remarks are Sen. John Hoeven, Sen. Kevin Cramer, the Honorable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/bios\/bio_quinn.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew T. Quinn<\/a>, Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, and Maj. Gen. Al Dohrmann, N.D. National Guard adjutant general. The keynote speaker is retired Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Macdonald, who was the adjutant general when the cemetery was dedicated. The master of ceremonies will be Lt. Col. Shirley J. Olgeirson, N.D. National Guard historian, who also presided over the dedication ceremony on Aug. 30, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Dakota Army National Guard\u2019s Fargo-based 188th Army Band\u2019s \u201cBrass Quintet\u201d will perform the national anthem and \u201cHero\u201d by Charles Mekealian\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony will be recorded and available on the North Dakota National Guard website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Dakota Veterans Cemetery was established by an act of the 1989 North Dakota Legislative Assembly. The cemetery was opened in July 1992 and is operated by the Office of the North Dakota adjutant general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandan (National Guard) \u2013 The North Dakota Veterans Cemetery will host a ceremony in observance of its 30th\u00a0anniversary on Aug. 31, 2022. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. (Central Time) at the\u00a0North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, 6.5 miles south of Mandan on North Dakota Highway 1806. The public and media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255487,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255486\/revisions\/255487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}