{"id":3271,"date":"2009-09-22T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169001"},"modified":"2009-09-22T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:00:11","slug":"ceremony-honors-sacrifice-of-pows-missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony honors sacrifice of POWs, missing in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169001\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/091809-F-0863H-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The men and women of the 21st Space Wing concluded their week long tribute to servicemembers who have been declared prisoners of war or missing in action with a POW\/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony Sept. 18 at the base chapel. <\/p>\n<p>Peterson&#8217;s observance marked the last of six days during the National POW\/MIA week, a period during which Congress has mandated the flying of the National League of Families&#8217; POW\/MIA flag. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony began with the posting of this flag and featured Col. (ret) Gordon Scott, an Army Air Corps aviator who spent 50 days as a POW in Japan, and closed with remarks from Col. Stephen Whiting, 21st SW commander. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169001\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","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\/3271","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"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=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}