{"id":21988,"date":"2011-01-26T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21988"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:43:25","slug":"the-rumor-dr-looks-at-1st-cavs-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21988","title":{"rendered":"The Rumor Dr looks at 1st Cav&#8217;s unit history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the story throughout my career whenever a 1st Cav patch was near, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/did-the-1st-cavalry-division-lose-its-colors-1.132899\">Rumor Doctor <\/a>roots out the origins of the &#8220;horse that was never ridden, the river that was never crossed and the color tells you why&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 1st Cavalry Division\u2019s combat patch stands out from its peers: Its silhouetted horse and line on a yellow field is recognizable from far away. But urban legend has it that there was a time when soldiers in the unit were not allowed to wear the patch in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStory is that the division lost its colors in Korea and since the division was \u2018disgraced\u2019 the patch could not be worn in the US,\u201d one reader wrote in an e-mail to The Rumor Doctor. \u201cDuring Vietnam the division \u2018regained\u2019 its honor, ending the ban.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/did-the-1st-cavalry-division-lose-its-colors-1.132899\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the story throughout my career whenever a 1st Cav patch was near, but the &hellip; <a title=\"The Rumor Dr looks at 1st Cav&#8217;s unit history\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21988\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rumor Dr looks at 1st Cav&#8217;s unit history<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988","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=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}