{"id":74002,"date":"2026-05-25T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/emotional-and-humbling-veterans-in-congress-participate-in-washing-of-vietnam-veterans-memorial\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:58:17","slug":"emotional-and-humbling-veterans-in-congress-participate-in-washing-of-vietnam-veterans-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/emotional-and-humbling-veterans-in-congress-participate-in-washing-of-vietnam-veterans-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Emotional\u2019 and \u2018humbling\u2019: Veterans in Congress participate in washing of Vietnam Veterans Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Memorial Day, a group of veterans serving in Congress cleaned the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall to honor those killed during the war. NBC\u2019s Melanie Zanona sat down with Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) and Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) to reflect on their service and the importance of having military veterans serving in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Memorial Day, a group of veterans serving in Congress cleaned the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall to honor those killed during the war. NBC\u2019s Melanie Zanona sat down with Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) and Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) to reflect on their service and the importance of having military veterans &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Emotional\u2019 and \u2018humbling\u2019: Veterans in Congress participate in washing of Vietnam Veterans Memorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/emotional-and-humbling-veterans-in-congress-participate-in-washing-of-vietnam-veterans-memorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Emotional\u2019 and \u2018humbling\u2019: Veterans in Congress participate in washing of Vietnam Veterans Memorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}