{"id":150704,"date":"2024-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=150704"},"modified":"2024-04-18T01:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:46:58","slug":"camp-zama-festival-celebrates-youngest-community-members-during-month-of-the-military-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=150704","title":{"rendered":"Camp Zama festival celebrates youngest community members during Month of the Military Child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n A child has his face painted during the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, held Saturday at Yano Field on Camp Zama, Japan.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Games, rides, live music, refreshments and more were part of an outdoor event held here Saturday to recognize and celebrate the community\u2019s youngest members.<\/p>\n

Hundreds gathered at the installation\u2019s Yano Field for the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, an event that Camp Zama\u2019s Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation and Child and Youth Services organized in celebration of the Month of the Military Child.<\/p>\n

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During remarks he gave to open the event and welcome attendees, Col. Marcus Hunter, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Japan, said the Month of the Military Child is \u201can incredible opportunity to celebrate the resilience, strength and the incredible sacrifice of military children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day of the event was blessed with sunny, warm weather, and the children there could be seen enjoying the various activities, including a large, inflatable obstacle course, carnival-type games, and face-painting.<\/p>\n

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Samantha \u201cSkully\u201d Kouzu Ballard, a tenth grader at Zama Middle High School, performed an anti-bullying rap onstage at the festival, which she said was an important message to promote at an event for children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope my message can empower the children and impact them to let them know that they are not alone,\u201d Samantha said.<\/p>\n

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\n A child rides an inflatable paddle boat during the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, held Saturday at Yano Field on Camp Zama, Japan. Camp Zama\u2019s Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation and Child and Youth Services organized in celebration of the Month of the Military Child.
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Samantha said the day was all about the children there, and the event was an ideal way to bring them together for a fun event that celebrated how important military children are to their community.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook around,\u201d she said, \u201cI think the kids are having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A child has his face painted during the \u201cKodomo No Matsuri,\u201d or Children\u2019s Festival, held Saturday at Yano Field on Camp Zama, Japan. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo) VIEW ORIGINAL CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Games, rides, live music, refreshments and more were part of an outdoor event held here Saturday to recognize and celebrate the community\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150706,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150711,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150704\/revisions\/150711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}