{"id":415910,"date":"2026-08-25T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:42:08","slug":"lubbock-vfw-to-remember-13-who-died-during-withdrawal-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415910\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock VFW to remember 13 who died during withdrawal from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock veteran community is inviting people to attend a remembrance service this week for American service members killed in the Middle East five years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The service will honor the 13 military members who died during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The service will be held Wednesday evening at 6:30 at the Monument of Courage near 84th and Nashville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The VFW, local Purple Heart chapter and the West Texas Veterans Cemetery Honor Guard invite everyone to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock veteran community is inviting people to attend a remembrance service this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-415910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}