{"id":26204,"date":"2019-08-25T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26204"},"modified":"2019-08-25T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T21:28:06","slug":"military-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/military-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Military, Battles &#8212; That&#8217;s Labor Day Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/labraday.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a little &#8220;bang for your buck&#8221; this Labor Day weekend, there are some military festivals that may give you more than you bargain for. Best of all &#8212; they&#8217;re FREE! These mostly outdoor events (tours of the inside of ships may be offered) feature hands-on learning and exploration for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>In San Pedro, home to the Port of Los Angeles and USS Iowa, Fleet Week arrives with much fanfare Aug.30-Sept.2, 2019. At Fleet Week there&#8217;s actually a STEM Expo presented by The Boeing Company, featuring the Battleship Blast High School Robotics Competition.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/navy-days.html\">LA FLEET WEEK<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Festival of Sail features Tall Ship Tours, Cannon Battles, Harbor Sails, and Maritime Crafts<\/li>\n<li>Military Appreciation Concert with band Cheap Trick, free on Friday<\/li>\n<li>Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Jump<\/li>\n<li>Aerial Demonstrations over the Main Channel<\/li>\n<li>The Bob Hope USO Rock Out<\/li>\n<li>Conquer the Bridge (Vincent Thomas Bridge) 5.3 Mile Race<\/li>\n<li>Obstacle Course Competition<\/li>\n<li>Veterans Village<\/li>\n<li>REBOOT Military &amp; Veterans Job Fair Thursday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Huntington Beach&#8217;s Central Park get ready for the annual Civil War Days Aug.31-Sept.1, 2019. This free event is a blast! Kids get a kick out of the sights, sounds and even the smell of the battles and canon fire.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-civil-war.html\">HB CIVIL WAR DAYS<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2 battles per day with canon fire and re-enactments<\/li>\n<li>Battlefield Concert<\/li>\n<li>Living History Weapons Demo<\/li>\n<li>Election of 1860 Rally<\/li>\n<li>President Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address<\/li>\n<li>Presidents &amp; Generals Panel<\/li>\n<li>Encampments<\/li>\n<li>Reenactor Swap Meet, public welcome!<\/li>\n<li>Saturday Night Dinner &amp; Dance $8, public invited<\/li>\n<li>Church Service Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a little &#8220;bang for your buck&#8221; this Labor Day weekend, there are some military festivals that may give you more than you bargain for. Best of all &#8212; they&#8217;re FREE! These mostly outdoor events (tours of the inside of ships may be offered) feature hands-on learning and exploration for all ages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26205,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions\/26205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}