{"id":303105,"date":"2026-06-10T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303105\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:46:09","slug":"american-legion-begins-cleanup-after-tornado-rips-through-jacksonville-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303105\/","title":{"rendered":"American Legion begins cleanup after tornado rips through Jacksonville facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Crews are now cleaning Jacksonville\u2019s American Legion after a tornado ripped through and destroyed the facility in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On March 12, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/13\/ef-0-tornado-destroys-jacksonville-american-legion-building-no-injuries-reported\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/13\/ef-0-tornado-destroys-jacksonville-american-legion-building-no-injuries-reported\/\">EF-0 tornado ravaged the post<\/a>, which was constructed in 1981 to support veterans. Nobody was injured or inside at the time of the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say they plan to rebuild the site in the future, with a flag retirement ceremony set for 8 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26535,91434,120630,127182,127183,127184,116,127185,118,117,4481,1854,7214,4480],"class_list":["post-303105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-american-legion","tag-cleanup","tag-ef-0","tag-ef-o","tag-ef0-tornado","tag-flag-retirement-ceremony","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-american-legion","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-tornado","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303105","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=303105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}