{"id":200565,"date":"2026-03-21T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:13:14","slug":"memorial-service-underway-for-central-florida-soldier-killed-in-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200565\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service underway for Central Florida soldier killed in Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial service underway for Central Florida soldier killed in Iran War<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 12:01 PM EDT Mar 21, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe memorial service for U.S. Army Reserve Major Cody Khork, a Polk County servicemember killed in the Iran War, is underway.His remains were transported back home on Wednesday, led by a procession of deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and partner agencies from Lakeland Linder Airport to Winter Haven.Khork was killed in the line of duty on March 1 in Kuwait.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The memorial service for U.S. Army Reserve Major Cody Khork, a Polk County servicemember killed in the Iran War, is underway.<\/p>\n

His remains were transported back home on Wednesday, led by a procession of deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and partner agencies from Lakeland Linder Airport to Winter Haven.<\/p>\n

Khork was killed in the line of duty on March 1 in Kuwait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial service underway for Central Florida soldier killed in Iran War Updated: 12:01 PM EDT Mar 21, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92678,92243,4561,40154,28,30,29,21539,82633,92681,92679,5511,92449,13204,25469,660,92680,92677,43511,2486,21956],"class_list":["post-200565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-central-florida-soldier","tag-cody-khork","tag-deputy","tag-duty","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-khork","tag-lakeland-linder-airport","tag-line","tag-major-cody-khork","tag-march","tag-memorial-service","tag-office","tag-partner-agency","tag-polk-county-servicemember","tag-procession","tag-wednesday","tag-winter-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}