{"id":85373,"date":"2025-05-26T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/?p=85373"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:34:31","slug":"2025-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2025\/05\/26\/2025-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-1536x1088.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2025\/05\/FB-Memorial-Day-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this Memorial Day, we honor the Guardsmen who gave everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across generations, members of the Hawaii National Guard have stood ready \u2014 at home and overseas \u2014 answering the call in times of war, disaster, and uncertainty. Today, we remember those who never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their sacrifice reminds us that service comes with great cost \u2014 and even greater courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/16.0\/1f56f_fe0f\/32.png\">&nbsp;We remember. We honor. We carry their legacy forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/blog\/hawai%ca%bbi-national-guard-honor-roll\/\">The Hawai\u02bbi National Guard Honor Roll&nbsp;highlights some of the Guardsmen who we have lost<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Memorial Day, we honor the Guardsmen who gave everything. Across generations, members of the Hawaii National Guard have stood ready \u2014 at home and overseas \u2014 answering the call in times of war, disaster, and uncertainty. Today, we remember those who never returned. Their sacrifice reminds us that service comes with great cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":85374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"81978,4161,12030,52448,13409,4219","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87036,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85373\/revisions\/87036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}