{"id":63812,"date":"2015-09-30T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63812"},"modified":"2015-09-27T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T13:59:54","slug":"state-american-legion-leaders-to-visit-oneida-county-oct-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63812","title":{"rendered":"State American Legion Leaders to Visit Oneida County Oct. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/American-legion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41412\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/American-legion.jpg\" alt=\"American legion\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/American-legion.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/American-legion-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Oneida County Legion to Honor WWII Veterans, Camden Man<\/p>\n<p>(Camden, NY \u2013 Sept. 2015) The leaders of the New York State American Legion Family will bring their message of action-oriented support for veterans and communities during a visit to Oneida County on\u00a0Friday, Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Department of New York Commander\u00a0James Yermas\u00a0will meet with local members of the American Legion Family during lunch at Arthur S. Moran Post 66 in Camden. Joining him will be Department Auxiliary President\u00a0Janet Mahoney\u00a0and Sons of the American Legion (SAL) Detachment CommanderJoseph L. SantaCroce Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Yermas will be available to meet with news media at 12:15\u00a0p.m. immediately following lunch.<\/p>\n<p>The state commander will join Oneida County American Legion Commander\u00a0Don Edwards\u00a0in honoring several World War II veterans at the luncheon. Later in the day, during a banquet at Nicole\u2019s in Camden, they will present an award to a Camden man for his devotion to veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Following the luncheon, the state leaders will tour Sitrin Health Care&#8217;s Military Rehabilitation Program in Utica.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, they will be the guest speakers at a dinner in their honor at Nicole\u2019s. Some 200 Legion, Auxiliary and SAL members are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>An Amsterdam native and Town of Florida resident, Commander Yermas is a 47-year Legion member. He is a U.S. Army veteran who served as an aircraft repairman with the 101st Aviation Unit in Hue Phu Bai, Vietnam, where he earned the nickname, Jungle Jim.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahoney is a 17-year Auxiliary member from the Rhinebeck area who has chaired a number of committees on the state level. Commander SantaCroce is a 33-year SAL member from Brooklyn who has served in leadership positions on nearly all levels of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oneida County Legion to Honor WWII Veterans, Camden Man (Camden, NY \u2013 Sept. 2015) The leaders of the New York State American Legion Family will bring their message of action-oriented support for veterans and communities during a visit to Oneida County on\u00a0Friday, Oct. 2. Department of New York Commander\u00a0James Yermas\u00a0will meet with local members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional","category-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}