{"id":238089,"date":"2015-11-16T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123463459"},"modified":"2015-11-16T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:52:32","slug":"ellicott-school-district-honors-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238089","title":{"rendered":"Ellicott School District honors veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123463459\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/11\/151111-F-WR604-020.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Veterans from the Colorado Springs area, including Schriever Air Force Base, attended a Veterans Day assembly at Ellicott High School, Colorado, Wednesday, Nov. 11, in honor of the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A huge debt is owed to America&#8217;s veterans and their families,&#8221; said Robin Weidemueller, Ellicott School District Student Services director. &#8220;We pay tribute today by recognizing what they have achieved and joining them in their resolve in keeping America safe and free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district&#8217;s faculty, staff and students highlighted those who&#8217;ve served, past and present, with a ceremony featuring music from the high school band and the Rockies Clarinet Quartet, from the U.S. Air Force Academy, songs sung by the district&#8217;s student choirs, a tribute video, a moment of silence and a final salute.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123463459\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123463459\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/11\/151111-F-WR604-020.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Veterans from the Colorado Springs area, including Schriever Air Force Base, attended a Veterans Day assembly at Ellicott High School, Colorado, Wednesday, Nov. 11, in honor of the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A huge debt is owed to America&#8217;s veterans and their families,&#8221; said Robin Weidemueller, Ellicott School District Student Services director. &#8220;We pay tribute today by recognizing what they have achieved and joining them in their resolve in keeping America safe and free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district&#8217;s faculty, staff and students highlighted those who&#8217;ve served, past and present, with a ceremony featuring music from the high school band and the Rockies Clarinet Quartet, from the U.S. Air Force Academy, songs sung by the district&#8217;s student choirs, a tribute video, a moment of silence and a final salute.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123463459\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238090,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238089\/revisions\/238090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}