{"id":183787,"date":"2024-05-23T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183787"},"modified":"2024-05-23T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:22:18","slug":"flags-in-honoring-the-fallen-at-arlington-national-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183787","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Flags In&#8217;: Honoring the Fallen at Arlington National Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>Soldiers assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as &#8220;The Old Guard,&#8221; placed U.S. flags at headstones in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., in advance of Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 76th anniversary of &#8220;Flags In.&#8221; During the event, 1,500 service members placed more than 260,000 flags at every gravesite and niche column at the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>The tradition has taken place since the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment was designated as the Army&#8217;s official ceremonial unit in 1948. Each flag is inserted into the ground, exactly one boot length from the headstone&#8217;s base.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dgov2slideshow-inline\">\n<div class=\"dgov2ss-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dgov2slideshow\">\n<div class=\"dgov2slideshow-breakout breakout\" id=\"dgov2slideshowId-3786391\">\n<p>    <span class=\"slide-caption-print\">{{slideNumber}} of {{numSlides}}<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-description\">\n<p class=\"slide-info\">\n            <strong class=\"slide-count\">{{slideNumber}}\/{{numSlides}}<\/strong><br \/>\n            <strong class=\"slide-title\"><br \/>\n                {{slideTitle}}<br \/>\n                <span class=\"slide-info-separator\"><br \/>\n                    &#8211;<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/strong><br \/>\n            <span class=\"slide-caption\">{{slideCaption}}<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-info size-calculation\">\n            <strong class=\"slide-count\">{{slideInfo.slideNumber}}\/{{numSlides}}<\/strong><br \/>\n            <strong class=\"slide-title\"><br \/>\n                {{slideInfo.slideTitle}}<br \/>\n                <span class=\"slide-info-separator\"><br \/>\n                    &#8211;<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/strong><br \/>\n            <span class=\"slide-caption\">{{slideInfo.slideCaption}}<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>All flags are removed after Memorial Day, before the cemetery opens to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as &#8220;The Old Guard,&#8221; placed U.S. flags at headstones in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., in advance of Memorial Day weekend. This was the 76th anniversary of &#8220;Flags In.&#8221; During the event, 1,500 service members placed more than 260,000 flags at every gravesite and niche column [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183787","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\/183787","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183790,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183787\/revisions\/183790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}