{"id":30799,"date":"2012-07-16T07:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30799"},"modified":"2012-07-16T07:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:41:54","slug":"lost-letters-delivered-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30799","title":{"rendered":"Lost letters delivered to family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>43 years after he was killed, Sergeant Steve Flaherty&#8217;s letters were returned to his family in a ceremony at Viet Nam Memorial Park in Columbia S.C. according to Columbia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/army-sergeant-s-letters-from-vietnam-returned-to-sc-family-1.182994\">The State<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sealed in an unassuming white envelope, the letters were presented by members of the 101st Airborne Division to Flaherty\u2019s uncle, Ken Cannon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a miracle that these letters have shown up after all this time,\u201d said Cannon at the ceremony, which included about 20 members of Flaherty\u2019s extended family, members of the military, representatives of veteran\u2019s groups and the general public who had come to pay their respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mention this because that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/\">evil valor vulture, Mary Schantag<\/a>, helped to locate the family so they could take possession of the letters after the letters were returned to Leon Panetta by the Vietnamese government while he was in Vietnam last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43 years after he was killed, Sergeant Steve Flaherty&#8217;s letters were returned to his family in &hellip; <a title=\"Lost letters delivered to family\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30799\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost letters delivered to family<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30799","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=30799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}