{"id":440342,"date":"2026-09-18T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440342\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:46:14","slug":"fort-bliss-ceremony-honors-pows-and-those-still-missing-in-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440342\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bliss ceremony honors POWs and those still missing in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Fort Bliss held a POW\/MIA Recognition Day ceremony Friday to honor service members who were captured or remain missing in action while serving the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony happened at 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at Memorial Circle on Fort Bliss.<\/p>\n<p>National POW\/MIA Recognition Day was established in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, U.S. presidents have annually proclaimed the third Friday in September as National POW\/MIA Recognition Day.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/fort-bliss?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">150 military personnel take part in El Pasoans Fighting Hunger food drive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Fort Bliss held a POW\/MIA Recognition Day ceremony Friday to honor service members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-440342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440342","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=440342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}