{"id":33707,"date":"2021-07-04T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/us-military-veterans-troops-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-07-04T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:00:17","slug":"a-day-for-respect-military-veterans-mark-us-troops-exit-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33707","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A day for respect\u2019: military veterans mark US troops\u2019 exit from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans groups say that after 20 years the withdrawal from America\u2019s \u2018forgotten war\u2019 provokes complicated feelings<\/p>\n<p>As the last US combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan after an almost 20-year deployment, veterans organizations in America are approaching the turning point as a moment of remembrance and caution.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Couture, spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfw.org\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=branded-paid&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw8vqGBhC_ARIsADMSd1CPgGLJ7xZ4o7uL-MV8lJ6E176yI3smaFrkjipLrbg_e2yPyog5HPwaAriZEALw_wcB\">Veterans of Foreign Wars<\/a> (VFW) in Washington, DC, told the Guardian the issue of withdrawal was complicated for many veterans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/us-military-veterans-troops-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans groups say that after 20 years the withdrawal from America\u2019s \u2018forgotten war\u2019 provokes complicated feelingsAs the last US combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan after an almost 20-year deployment, veterans organizations in America are appro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33707\/revisions\/33708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}