{"id":21783,"date":"2011-01-09T20:27:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21783"},"modified":"2011-01-09T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:31:49","slug":"major-dick-winters-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21783","title":{"rendered":"Major Dick Winters has passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21784 aligncenter\" title=\"956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/956.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/956-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve read or watched &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; you&#8217;re familiar with the name Dick Winters. Zedechek sends news that Major Winters has passed. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majordickwinters.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=4612\">link is to the news on the forum named for him<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2011\/01\/dick_winters_of_band_of_brothe.html\">from PennLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The line I&#8217;ll always remember from the interviews at the end of the movie is when his grandson asked him if he was a hero he said &#8220;No, but I served in a company with heroes&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always been grateful for the legacy that men like Dick Winters left for my generation of soldiers, and we&#8217;ll ALL always be indebted for what did for us.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeWXoYHgmTU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeWXoYHgmTU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Keep your feet and knees together, Major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read or watched &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; you&#8217;re familiar with the name Dick Winters. Zedechek &hellip; <a title=\"Major Dick Winters has passed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21783\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major Dick Winters has passed<\/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-21783","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\/21783","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=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}