{"id":27544,"date":"2011-11-17T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27544"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:43:13","slug":"50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27544","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SFberet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27545\" title=\"SFberet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SFberet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SFberet.jpg 543w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SFberet-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Army, my homeboy, John McHugh laid a wreath today at President Kennedy&#8217;s gravesite to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Green Beret according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/wreath-laying-at-jfk-gravesite-marks-50th-anniversary-of-green-beret-1.161042\">Stars &amp; Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kennedy approved the green beret after visiting Fort Bragg, N.C., in late 1961. In a message to then-Special Forces Commander Brig. Gen. William P. Yarborough, Kennedy wrote: \u201cThe challenge of this old but new form of operations is a real one and I know that you and the members of your command will carry on for us and the free world in a manner which is both worth and inspiring. I am sure the Green Beret will be a mark of distinction in the trying times abroad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/wreath-laying-at-jfk-gravesite-marks-50th-anniversary-of-green-beret-1.161042\"> Video of the ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Wreath-GB-Kennedy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Wreath-GB-Kennedy-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wreath GB Kennedy\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Wreath-GB-Kennedy-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Wreath-GB-Kennedy.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of the Army, my homeboy, John McHugh laid a wreath today at President Kennedy&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"50th Anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27544\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50th 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":[180,10,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary","category-historical","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544","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=27544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}