{"id":265,"date":"2014-05-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=265"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T00:30:50","slug":"wreath-laying-ceremony-sat-24-may-2014-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Wreath-Laying Ceremony A Huge Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started off our 25th reunion year with a great event in Washington, DC &#8212; a <strong>wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier<\/strong> <strong>on Saturday, 24 May 2014<\/strong>. \u00a0The <strong>Fife &amp; Drum Corps<\/strong> and the <strong>US Army Drill Team<\/strong> performed prior to the ceremon<a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Wreath-Laying-smaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Wreath-Laying-smaller-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"ANC 2014 Wreath-Laying\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Wreath-Laying-smaller-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Wreath-Laying-smaller.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>y.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COL James Markert (H2 &#8217;89)<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0the Regimental Commander, 3d US Infantry Regt, &#8220;The Old Guard&#8221;, at the time and he coordinated with <strong>Dave Kammen (F1, &#8217;89)<\/strong>, Director of Operations &amp; Plans at Arlington National Cemetery, to schedule\u00a0this event.<\/p>\n<p>Over 50 classmates a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-282 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Group-smaller-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"ANC 2014 Group\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Group-smaller-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ANC-2014-Group-smaller.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>nd even more family members attended the day&#8217;s events, ending up at the O-Club for a few drinks. <strong>Make sure to join us next time! \u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s no place like Arlington on Memorial Day Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started off our 25th reunion year with a great event in Washington, DC &#8212; a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Saturday, 24 May 2014. \u00a0The Fife &amp; Drum Corps and the US Army Drill Team performed prior to the ceremony. COL James Markert (H2 &#8217;89)\u00a0was\u00a0the Regimental Commander, 3d US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}