{"id":36217,"date":"2021-08-31T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/last-man-out-the-haunting-image-of-americas-final-moments-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:04:42","slug":"last-man-out-the-haunting-image-of-americas-final-moments-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36217","title":{"rendered":"Last man out: the haunting image of America\u2019s final moments in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sending a brief message of congratulation to his troops, Major General Chris Donahue became the last pair of American \u2018boots on the ground\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/31\/afghanistan-live-news-kabul-taliban-biden-final-us-flight-military-forces-leave-airport-islamic-state-latest-updates\">Afghanistan \u2013 latest news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After two decades, America\u2019s last soldier left without pomp, without ceremony, certainly without the grandeur of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Bathed in the green light of a night vision scope, Maj Gen Chris Donahue, the final American pair of \u201cboots on the ground\u201d, walked up the rear ramp of an air force C-17 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/last-man-out-the-haunting-image-of-americas-final-moments-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sending a brief message of congratulation to his troops, Major General Chris Donahue became the last pair of American \u2018boots on the ground\u2019Afghanistan \u2013 latest newsAfter two decades, America\u2019s last soldier left without pomp, without ceremony, cer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,61,45,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions\/36218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}