{"id":5926,"date":"2026-09-07T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=5926"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:36:05","slug":"gathering-of-wwii-vets","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/?tribe_events=gathering-of-wwii-vets","title":{"rendered":"Gathering of WWII Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GATHERING OF WWII HEROES SPECIAL EVENT at the Texas Military Forces Museum on Sunday September 20 at 11 a.m. In conjunction with Patrick Reed&#8217;s &#8220;The War Remembered&#8221; oral history project the museum will be hosting eight or more WWII veterans during Austin Museum Day. They will take part in a panel discussion at 11 a.m. and after a short lunch break be on hand to meet visitors and tell their stories. The museum&#8217;s living history detachment will be on hand to let these heroes see WWII weapons and give them a ride in a WWII jeep. Come out and help us say THANK YOU to these great Americans! The list of attendees includes <em><a href=\"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WWII-Heroes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5927\" src=\"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WWII-Heroes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WWII-Heroes.jpg 612w, https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WWII-Heroes-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GATHERING OF WWII HEROES SPECIAL EVENT at the Texas Military Forces Museum on Sunday September 20 at 11 a.m. In conjunction with Patrick Reed&#8217;s &#8220;The War Remembered&#8221; oral history project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/?tribe_events=gathering-of-wwii-vets\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gathering of WWII Vets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-5926","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5926\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftribe_events_cat&post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}