{"id":41107,"date":"2023-05-12T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=41107"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:24:22","slug":"chester-county-fop-to-hold-leo-memorial-service-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=41107","title":{"rendered":"Chester County FOP to hold LEO memorial service, May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18028\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Photo-IV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/>In conjunction with National Police Week, Chester County FOP Lodge #11 will be hosting their annual Law Enforcement Memorial Service on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 6:30pm, in front of Lodge Headquarters, 218 N. Church Street, West Chester, PA\u00a0 19380.\u00a0 The public is invited.<\/p>\n<p>Honored will be the nine officers from Chester County who over the years, were killed in the line of duty.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this year Lodge #11 will be adding a 10<sup>th<\/sup> officer to our memorial monument, Officer Joshua Micun from the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department, who contracted COVID while on duty and died on October 31, 2021.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s ceremony will include an Honor Guard presentation led by local Law Enforcement Officers, a pipe band performance by the Chester County Emerald Society, guest speakers such as local Lodge President Robert McCarron, PA State FOP Lodge President Joe Regan, as well as Chester County District Attorney Deborah Ryan.\u00a0 South Coatesville Police Chief Kevin Pierce will sing the National Anthem, and the playing of Taps by Matthew Grieco from Grieco Funeral Home in Kennett Square, PA.\u00a0 A solemn reading of the names and \u201cend of watch\u201d dates of the Chester County heroes will round out the tribute with a reception at Lodge #11 afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with National Police Week, Chester County FOP Lodge #11 will be hosting their annual Law Enforcement Memorial Service on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 6:30pm, in front of Lodge Headquarters, 218 N. Church Street, West Chester, PA\u00a0 19380.\u00a0 The public is invited. Honored will be the nine officers from Chester County who over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14218,14219],"class_list":["post-41107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-chester-county-fop","tag-law-enforcement-memorial-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41108,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107\/revisions\/41108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}