{"id":92008,"date":"2026-05-25T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/92008\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:12:08","slug":"copenhagen-honors-fallen-service-members-with-memorial-day-parade-and-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/92008\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen honors fallen service members with Memorial Day parade and ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COPENHAGEN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Copenhagen honored its fallen with a parade and cemetery Memorial Day service Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local school bands, businesses, and military personnel marched down Mechanic Street. The 10th Mountain Division band and a float of Copenhagen\u2019s Vietnam War veterans made their way to the village cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shots of the three-volley salute rang out, followed by the playing of taps and the laying of wreaths for the fallen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the ceremony, a 10th Mountain Division soldier delivered a message about the significance of the lives lost in service of the country and the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTwo and a half centuries ago, a radical idea was written onto paper. That all people are created equal, endowed with rights to liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness. But, words on paper cannot defend themselves,\u201d said Lt. Col. David Aamidor, 3rd Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. \u201cOur nation was won by the continental army, preserved by generations who refused to let that flame die, and is the reason we can gather freely today in villages just like this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the honoring of Copenhagen\u2019s lost service members is year-round, though the ceremonies ended Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Copenhagen honored its fallen with a parade and cemetery Memorial Day service Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[48373,48369,108,48371,48372,48370,47612,44532,48368],"class_list":["post-92008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-10th-mountain-division","tag-ceremony","tag-copenhagen","tag-david-aamidor","tag-fort-drum","tag-mechanic-street","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-parade","tag-wwny"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116637515439781819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}