{"id":2317,"date":"2012-04-15T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2012-04-16T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:31:34","slug":"petersburg-bridge-named-for-fallen-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Petersburg Bridge Named for Fallen Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the legislature passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ak.us\/basis\/get_bill.asp?bill=HB%20246&amp;session=27\" target=\"_blank\">legislation<\/a> naming a Petersburg bridge in honor of Donald &#8220;Harry&#8221; Kito.\u00a0 Harry was a resident of Petersburg who gave his life while serving in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Growing up in Petersburg, he joined the Marines 1965 and was deployed to Vietnam the following year.\u00a0\u00a0Harry was killed in action July 8, 1967 at the age of 25 and is buried at the Petersburg Memorial Cemetery.\u00a0 I lived in Petersburg at the time of Harry\u2019s passing, and clearly remember the day that his body was delivered home with military honors.\u00a0 The experience was very impactful in the small community; the entire town shut down in order to attend the funeral and mourn the loss of this young man.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to recognize Alaskans who give of themselves to make a difference in our state and country, and I\u2019m pleased the legislature passed legislation honoring Harry\u2019s sacrifice for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the legislature passed legislation naming a Petersburg bridge in honor of Donald &#8220;Harry&#8221; Kito.\u00a0 Harry was a resident of Petersburg who gave his life while serving in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Growing up in Petersburg, he joined the Marines 1965 and was deployed to Vietnam the following year.\u00a0\u00a0Harry was killed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}