{"id":480517,"date":"2018-05-28T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1534061\/the-price-of-freedom-45th-space-wing-honors-and-remembers-vietnam-veterans\/"},"modified":"2018-05-28T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:16:00","slug":"the-price-of-freedom-45th-space-wing-honors-and-remembers-vietnam-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=480517","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Freedom &#8211; 45th Space Wing Honors and Remembers Vietnam Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UH-1 \u201cHuey\u201d helicopter, used extensively in the Vietnam War, roared over the crowds gathered May 28, 2018, at the Cape Canaveral National Cemetery to honor and pay respects to our Vietnam War veterans in a flyover, but even as thunderous as the \u201cHuey\u201d was, with its blades whirling fast and loud \u2013 was quiet compared to the respect given to those that had fallen.<br \/>\n\tOver 900 people came to the cemetery, where over 3,200 military veterans are buried &#8212; to <br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/May\/28\/2001923535\/82\/55\/0\/180528-F-DJ189-9816.JPG' alt='Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, Commander of the 45th Space Wing, gives a speech May 28th, 2018, at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery, Fla. Brig. Gen. Monteith was the keynote speaker of the ceremony and this was his second time speaking at the event.' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UH-1 &ldquo;Huey&rdquo; helicopter, used extensively in the Vietnam War, roared over the crowds gathered May 28, 2018, at the Cape Canaveral National Cemetery to honor and pay respects to our Vietnam War veterans in a flyover, but even as thunderous as the &ldquo;Huey&rdquo; was, with its blades whirling fast and loud &ndash; was quiet compared to the respect given to those that had fallen.<br \/>\n\tOver 900 people came to the cemetery, where over 3,200 military veterans are buried &#8212; to <br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/May\/28\/2001923535\/82\/55\/0\/180528-F-DJ189-9816.JPG\" alt=\"Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, Commander of the 45th Space Wing, gives a speech May 28th, 2018, at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery, Fla. Brig. Gen. Monteith was the keynote speaker of the ceremony and this was his second time speaking at the event.\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2953,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480517","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\/480517","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\/2953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480518,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480517\/revisions\/480518"}],"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=480517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}