{"id":1509707,"date":"2026-05-24T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509707"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:07:03","slug":"memorial-day-events-across-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509707","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day events across East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1412664\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013 Memorial Day is almost here and East Texans are preparing to host several events that will honor United States soldiers who\u2019ve died while at war. The holiday was first nationally observed as Decoration Day on May 30, 1868, because Union General John A. Logan wanted to honor the Union soldiers who died in the American Civil War, which had ended just three years before.<\/p>\n<p>To help East Texans find local events for the annual observance, our news partner KETK has put together the following <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\/news\/veterans-voices\/list-memorial-day-events-honoring-fallen-soldiers-across-east-texas\/\">list of Memorial Day events happening across East Texas<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Memorial Day is almost here and East Texans are preparing to host several events that will honor United States soldiers who\u2019ve died while at war. The holiday was first nationally observed as Decoration Day on May 30, 1868, because Union General John A. Logan wanted to honor the Union soldiers who died in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Day events across East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1509875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143-200x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:43:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-e1747684479143-200x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509876,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509707\/revisions\/1509876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}