{"id":53227,"date":"2023-11-10T08:59:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53227"},"modified":"2023-11-10T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:59:48","slug":"countys-operation-green-light-program-honors-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53227","title":{"rendered":"County\u2019s Operation Green Light Program honors veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18904\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18904\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OGL-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veterans, family and friends attended Chester County\u2019s Operation Green Light program on the steps of the Historic Courthouse this week. Operation Green Light, from November 6-12, shines a light on the contribution of veterans nationwide, including the 24,000-plus veterans in Chester County.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chester County marked the start of <em>Operation Green Light <\/em>this week with a ceremony honoring the county\u2019s 24,000-plus veterans, held in front of the County\u2019s Historic Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operation Green Light recognizes the sacrifices of veterans nationwide, shining a green light to show that veterans and their families are seen and appreciated.\u00a0 Chester County joins counties across the U.S., and from November 6-12 the Historic Courthouse will be illuminated in green.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chester County Department of Veterans Affairs and Coatesville VA Medical Center encouraged residents and businesses in the county to add their support for Operation Green Light by replacing a porch light or lamp with a green light bulb.\u00a0 Through a donation by Walmart, thousands of free green light bulbs were available to help with the support. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speakers at the County\u2019s Operation Green Light event included Chester County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz and Josh Maxwell; Jim Oram, Chair of the Chester County Veterans Advisory Council; Devin Hill, Chester County Veterans\u2019 Service Officer; Jennifer Harkins, Director of the Coatesville VA Medical Center; Andrew Lippert, Decorated Veteran and Congressional Aide for Rep. Chrissy Houlahan; and Dawn Young, Market Manager for Walmart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on the programs and services offered to veterans and their families by the Chester County Department of Veterans Affairs, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesco.org\/veterans\">www.chesco.org\/veterans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chester County marked the start of Operation Green Light this week with a ceremony honoring the county\u2019s 24,000-plus veterans, held in front of the County\u2019s Historic Courthouse. Operation Green Light recognizes the sacrifices of veterans nationwide, shining a green light to show that veterans and their families are seen and appreciated.\u00a0 Chester County joins counties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,7426,14804,2201],"class_list":["post-53227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-featured","tag-operation-green-light","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53228,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53227\/revisions\/53228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}