{"id":21948,"date":"2011-01-21T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21948"},"modified":"2011-01-21T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:54:47","slug":"hostages-reunite-on-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21948","title":{"rendered":"Hostages reunite on anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was it really 30 years ago? 52 hostages held in the Iranian Islamic Republic for 444 days. They held a reunion today. From <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2011\/01\/21\/iran-hostages-reunion\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rosen is one of fifteen former hostages attending a reunion this weekend at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where in 1981 they returned to recuperate and reunite with their families in a private setting.<br \/>\nThis morning they were given a rousing welcome by the entire West Point corps of 4,400 cadets, who cheered and applauded as the former hostages walked down a long corridor to their first event.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight Air Force crewmen died in the failed rescue attempt several months before, eight more were badly injured. You can read Mark Bowden&#8217;s account of Desert One at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2006\/05\/the-desert-one-debacle\/4803\/1\/\">Atlantic Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be at Rhein Mein in Frankfurt, Germany at the Rhein Mein Hotel when the hostages were brought from the hospital on an overnight stay to the airport to return to the States. So that was my brush with them as they waved from bus windows to the military folks lined up at the gate to welcome them back from their ordeal. Back when we had a President who struck fear in lawless governments in our early days of the war against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it really 30 years ago? 52 hostages held in the Iranian Islamic Republic for 444 &hellip; <a title=\"Hostages reunite on anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21948\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hostages reunite on anniversary<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948","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=21948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}