{"id":129273,"date":"2022-08-15T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129273"},"modified":"2022-08-15T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:37:50","slug":"brother-of-afghanistan-marine-kia-commits-suicide-at-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129273","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Afghanistan Marine KIA Commits Suicide at Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-129274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin-500x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin-500x296.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coffin.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a heartbreaking story, several news outlets are reporting that the brother of a Marine killed in Afghanistan during the withdrawal has killed himself at the site of a shrine honoring his brother&#8217;s sacrifice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brother-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-dies-by-suicide-during-memorial-service?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=non_member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brother Of Marine Killed In Afghanistan Withdrawal Dies By Suicide During Memorial Service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Dillon Burroughs \u2022 Aug 14, 2022 \u2022 DailyWire.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brother of a U.S. Marine who died during last year\u2019s military withdrawal from Afghanistan reportedly committed suicide during his sibling\u2019s recent memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>Dakota Halverson, 28, died on August 9. He was the older brother of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20, from Norco, California, who was one of the 13 military members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older brother of one of the 13 KIA in Kabul recently killed himself at his little brother\u2019s memorial,\u201d Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) tweeted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease pray for his family. There MUST be accountability for this continued carnage,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129275 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui-424x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui-424x333.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dakota-and-nikoui.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is tragic, but it is a bit unclear whether\u00a0this incident occurred at a memorial site or during a memorial service.  I believe it happened at a shrine in honor of his brother, but was reported that it happened at a memorial &#8211; which could mean a service or a shrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartbreaking story, several news outlets are reporting that the brother of a Marine killed &hellip; <a title=\"Brother of Afghanistan Marine KIA Commits Suicide at Memorial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129273\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brother of Afghanistan Marine KIA Commits Suicide at Memorial<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":129274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129276,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129273\/revisions\/129276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}