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Recent Examples of honor guardOn the tarmac, standing at attention and saluting, were sailors in their dress whites and an honor guard in service dress blues and campaign hats.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024 The honor guard fired three volleys into the sky, and assembled mourners sang the Ukrainian national anthem.—Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 Officials from National Transportation Safety Board and an honor guard of first responders in dress uniform are also present on the tarmac.—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025 An honor guard loaded the caisson, a ceremonial wagon designed a century ago to ferry artillery to the battlefront and the wounded and dead to the rear, with an empty coffin.—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for honor guard
On Wednesday afternoon, led by police escort, Robert O’Malley became the first resident of Tuskegee Airmen Texas State Veterans Home in Fort Worth.
O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam war, was accompanied by his stepdaughter Shannon Dear.
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Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2025
The flyby, which occurred under escort by United States fighter jets, sparked discussion among aviation enthusiasts.
The Israel Defense Forces claimed the convoy was moving suspiciously, without headlights or flashing lights, toward Israeli troops and that members of the emergency teams were militants.
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Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
Many of them have been living and working in South Florida after being sponsored by relatives to come to the United States to apply for asylum or other protections instead of trying to get in through the U.S.-Mexico border, where a migrant crisis erupted during the Biden administration’s watch.
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Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
Under Griffin’s watch, the Pelicans acquired Trey Murphy in the first round of the 2021 NBA Draft and followed that up by using first-round picks on Dyson Daniels in 2022, Jordan Hawkins in 2023 and Yves Missi in 2024.
Multiple victims were also minors, and at least two were smuggled into the U.S. unaccompanied by a relative or legal guardian, according to the Justice Department.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
Earlier this month, the talk show host expressed her regrets about consenting to the courts appointing her a legal guardian to oversee her affairs in the past.
Belle Isle police officer Jacob Tapia was injured on April 3 after Paula Hernandez Lazaro crashed into his patrol vehicle after failing to yield while making a left turn.
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Elizabeth Pritchett,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Word of the decision comes as Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes is facing union criticism for replacing officers’ shields with a new design that mimics those worn by NYPD patrol officers.
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