{"id":48401,"date":"2026-04-02T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/48401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:09:15","slug":"war-in-iraq-hits-home-for-vermonters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/48401\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Iraq hits home for Vermonters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The war in Iraq hit home for Vermonters on this day in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Warrant Officer Erik Halvorsen, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot, was killed in a crash in central Iraq on April 2, 2003. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 40-year-old was laid to rest two weeks later in his hometown of Bennington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Halvorsen was the first Vermont serviceman killed in the Second Gulf War. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The war in Iraq hit home for Vermonters on this day in history. Chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14463,19840,1725,19841,9017,1584,19838,359,19839,7243,2336,94,179,42,3761,10794,14462,12949,36,3702,17072],"class_list":{"0":"post-48401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-14463","9":"tag-accident","10":"tag-army","11":"tag-bennington","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-erik","15":"tag-gulf","16":"tag-halvorsen","17":"tag-helicopter","18":"tag-history","19":"tag-iraq","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-pilot","23":"tag-serviceman","24":"tag-this-day-in-history","25":"tag-vermont","26":"tag-war","27":"tag-wcax","28":"tag-wreck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116335277713118162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}