{"id":198705,"date":"2020-05-08T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=198705"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:00:01","slug":"75th-anniversary-end-of-wwii-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=198705","title":{"rendered":"75th Anniversary, End of WWII, Europe, May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-198706\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VEDay2020-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VEDay2020-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VEDay2020-350x175.jpg 350w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VEDay2020.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Washington DC \u00a0(AP) \u2014 8 World War II veterans will join President Donald Trump at a wreath-laying ceremony Fri May 8 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, White House officials describe the veterans as \u201cchoosing nation over self\u201d by joining Trump at the World War II Memorial ceremony. The veterans range in age from the mid 90s to 100. White House spokesman Judd Deere says, \u201cThese heroes are living testaments to the American spirit of perseverance and victory, especially in the midst of dark days.&#8221; The veterans joining Trump include 97-year-old Gregory Melikian, of Phoenix, who sent the coded message to the world that the Germans had unconditionally surrendered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC \u00a0(AP) \u2014 8 World War II veterans will join President Donald Trump at a wreath-laying ceremony Fri May 8 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, White House officials describe the veterans as \u201cchoosing nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198745,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198705\/revisions\/198745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}