{"id":5971,"date":"2014-04-03T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2014-04-03T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:03:12","slug":"families-of-soldiers-who-died-in-afghan-mission-must-pay-own-way-to-memorial-ctv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/03\/families-of-soldiers-who-died-in-afghan-mission-must-pay-own-way-to-memorial-ctv\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of soldiers who died in Afghan mission must pay own way to memorial: CTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5972\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1377126_597397990302131_2026246299_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5972\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of CTV News\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1377126_597397990302131_2026246299_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1377126_597397990302131_2026246299_n.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1377126_597397990302131_2026246299_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1377126_597397990302131_2026246299_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of CTV News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Family members of soldiers who died while serving in Afghanistan have been told they will have to pay their own way to a special memorial in Ottawa next month.<\/p>\n<p>CTV News reports that a letter from National Defence dated last month invites them to the National Day of Honour on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>But the letter from the director of casualty support management says \u201dyour attendance would be at your own expense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears a change of heart may be in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Rob Nicholson told CTV that he will soon announce \u201cfinancial support for the families of the fallen travelling to Ottawa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some 158 soldiers died during the Afghan mission, along with one diplomat, one journalist and two civilian contractors. The last soldiers returned last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Family members of soldiers who died while serving in Afghanistan have been told they will have to pay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1684],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-ctv-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}