{"id":19111,"date":"2010-05-13T07:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2010-05-13T07:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T12:29:33","slug":"honor-in-the-valley-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19111","title":{"rendered":"Honor in the Valley of Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Knight sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7002678.html\">this link of a band of Vietnam &#8220;brothers&#8221;<\/a> led by their father figure;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The documentary, Honor in the Valley of Tears, recalls the event and the lives of the men affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have such a profound respect and love for him,\u201d said New York City filmmaker John Ponsoll, whose father served under [1st Sgt. David H.] McNerney. \u201cMy dad lights up like a Christmas tree when he gets to talk of one of his war buddies.\u201d<br \/>\nBand of brothers<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to learn more about his father&#8217;s time in Vietnam, Ponsoll and filmmaker Eric Dow crisscrossed the country interviewing veterans. The two quickly dis covered not many enjoyed discussing their own experiences, instead always circling back to McNerney, who was their trainer at Fort Lewis, Wash., and then signed on to lead them in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of felt they needed all the help they could get, and they were my boys,\u201d McNerney said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole story and take a box of tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Knight sends this link of a band of Vietnam &#8220;brothers&#8221; led by their father figure; &hellip; <a title=\"Honor in the Valley of Tears\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19111\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honor in the Valley of Tears<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","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=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}