{"id":21440,"date":"2024-11-11T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:07:03","slug":"komets-honor-veterans-with-special-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/komets-honor-veterans-with-special-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Komets honor veterans with special night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nearly sold-out Memorial Coliseum crowd roared its approval as the Fort Wayne Komets unveiled a huge flag at center ice Saturday night, highlighting the hockey club&#8217;s Military Appreciation Night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Komets annually hold ceremonies honoring military veterans, this was the first time the flag punctuated the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?resize=640%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?resize=1024%2C726&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?resize=768%2C545&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?resize=1536%2C1089&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?w=1671&amp;ssl=1 1671w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/komets-flag.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Komets players (in white in photo) helped a crew of volunteers hold \u2013 and wave \u2013 the flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crowd of 9,325 continued roaring its approval as the Komets defeated Kalamazoo, 4-3, improving to a 7-1 start to the season..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fort Wayne players wore special uniforms which were sold to the public through an auction. A total of 27 uniforms raised an estimated $10,000 which will be donated to two local veterans organizations: the Warrior Breed Motorcycle Club and the NE Indiana Base Community Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Aleardi&#8217;s jersey brought the most money, $801, while Kyle Mayhew&#8217;s brought in $765 and Nick Deakiin-Poot sold for $654.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All American Stores \u2013 which has a store in Monroe \u2013 sponsored the special night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A nearly sold-out Memorial Coliseum crowd roared its approval as the Fort Wayne Komets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21442,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions\/21442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}