{"id":175677,"date":"2023-11-07T20:17:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/?p=175677"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:03:43","slug":"captain-milton-troy-iii-veterans-day-program-speaker-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/captain-milton-troy-iii-veterans-day-program-speaker-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Veterans Day at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Captain Milton Troy III, Chief of Staff, Naval Sea Systems Command, Guest Speaker<\/h3>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2023 11 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation is pleased to present Captain Milton Troy, III as its annual Veterans Day program main speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Troy received his commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Program at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Captain Troy\u2018s operational assignments include the USS Normandy (CG-60) in Norfolk Virginia where he served. His personal awards include the Legion of Merit (two awards) the Meritorious Service Medal (6 awards) and the Joint Commission Medal, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>The Nation\u2019s Capital, Jack and Jill Club of American will lead the audience in a special \u201cReading of Names.\u201d The reading will be followed by the laying of the wreath and refreshments at Noon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VETERANS DAY AGENDA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OPENING SONG JUDY WILLIAMS, FREED<br \/>\nOPENING PRAYER JUJDY WILLIAMS, FREED<br \/>\nPRAYER FOR VETS PAT TYSON, FREED<br \/>\nINTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER<br \/>\nCaptain Milton W. Troy, iii<br \/>\nJACK AND JILL READING OF THE NAMES<br \/>\nWREATH LAYING<br \/>\nREFRESHMENT INSIDE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PRESS-RELEASE-FOR-IMMEDIATE-RELEASE-ALL-COME-CELEBRATION-VETERANS-DAY-AT-TH_20231107_081323_0000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nDownload the Press Release<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation is pleased to present Captain Milton Troy, III as its annual Veterans Day program main speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176817,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175677\/revisions\/176817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}