{"id":202377,"date":"2026-03-23T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:03:11","slug":"florida-soldier-killed-in-iran-war-to-be-buried-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202377\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida soldier killed in Iran war to be buried Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">BUSHNELL, Fla.  \u2013 A Florida soldier killed in the war with Iran will be laid to rest on Monday at Florida National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Major_Cody_Khork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Major_Cody_Khork\/\">Maj. Cody Khork<\/a>, 35, died in a drone attack in Kuwait shortly after U.S. and Israeli forces began military strikes against Iran. Khork, who was posthumously promoted from captain, will be buried in Bushnell following weekend funeral services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Family and friends gathered to remember Khork <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/20\/flags-to-fly-at-half-staff-saturday-for-fallen-army-major-from-polk-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/20\/flags-to-fly-at-half-staff-saturday-for-fallen-army-major-from-polk-county\/\">during the funeral service<\/a> on Saturday, reflecting on his impact and service to the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Khork, from Polk County, was a multiple-launch rocket system\/fire direction specialist who had served in the Army since 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A motorcade will escort Khork\u2019s body to his final resting place at the national cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUSHNELL, Fla. \u2013 A Florida soldier killed in the war with Iran will be laid to rest on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92243,28,30,29,2583,1911,21956],"class_list":{"0":"post-202377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cody-khork","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-polk-county","14":"tag-winter-haven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202377","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=202377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}