{"id":27670,"date":"2011-11-27T01:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T05:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27670"},"modified":"2011-11-27T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T06:17:43","slug":"this-post-started-with-a-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27670","title":{"rendered":"This post started with a photo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/EnterpriseBurningHellcat.jpg\/320px-EnterpriseBurningHellcat.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember the original video from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sto3p3eozg8\">Victory at Sea<\/a> series. I remember the reckless disregard that the ground crew Officer went to retrieve the pilot. Originally I was not able to find that video but I found this video. Also the song that is selected for the video is interesting to note. It goes by the name &#8220;A prayer for the Fleet&#8221;. I cannot find the lyrics for it on the net. What I have found out is that it is done by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Prayer-For-The-Fleet\/dp\/B000QVSNAC\">US Navy Sea Chanter Chorus<\/a>. But one thing that got me thinking because of the song is the part that starts at :37 and goes to 1:12. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gpCLeWqY0w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The last crash landing is post World War Two. I knew that carrier crashes can and do happen but, you do not think of them being to that extent. The video at 2:15 is a violent reminder to the contrary. This leads me to my next topic. The disaster on the  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire\">USS Forrestal. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chuiyXQKw3I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video and link cover most of the basic information of the fire so I will just skip to my thoughts. The first one is that it seems that in the process of trying to save money that it ended up costing them much more in lives, manpower and material. Something that sometimes gets forgotten in and out of the military community. Also I wonder what our resident Navy guy, Zero Ponsdorf thoughts are on the USS Forrestal and how it changed the Navy. <\/p>\n<p>But the last part is the actions of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iK7RGpSlJ7Y\">Gerald Farrier<\/a> who tried to prevent the bombs from exploding. He recklessly tried to protect his fellow shipmates without regards to his own safety. His actions reminded me of the actions of the original photo. <\/p>\n<p>As I was writing this post, I was able to find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tmxh9RPjZUg\">video<\/a> related to the above photo. It starts at 5:36 if you want to skip the other videos. <\/p>\n<p>It is amazing where a photo can take you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the original video from the Victory at Sea series. I remember the reckless disregard &hellip; <a title=\"This post started with a photo.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27670\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This post started with a photo.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-fest","category-blather","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}