{"id":11944,"date":"2009-06-24T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2009-06-24T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:47:45","slug":"former-dc-guard-commander-killed-in-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11944","title":{"rendered":"Former DC Guard commander killed in train wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=63442\">Stars and Stripes <\/a>is reporting that one of the casualties in the Red Line Metro train wreck on Monday was a former commander of the National Guard in DC;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nine victims of the Metro train collision in Washington included the recently retired commanding general of the D.C. National Guard and his wife; two working moms; a retired teacher who was working as a substitute, and a woman who worked with nurses around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., 62, and his wife Ann, 62, were killed Monday afternoon when two trains collided on the Red Line. They lived in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton wrote in an e-mail that she developed a close relationship with Wherley, especially during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as D.C. National Guard members were transformed from weekend warriors to Army troops in battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A retired major general on public transportation. Bet we&#8217;ll never see Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes is reporting that one of the casualties in the Red Line Metro &hellip; <a title=\"Former DC Guard commander killed in train wreck\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11944\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former DC Guard commander killed in train wreck<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}