{"id":31551,"date":"2012-08-16T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31551"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:23:20","slug":"life-of-duty-under-fire-over-fire-national-airborne-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31551","title":{"rendered":"Life of Duty; \u201cUnder Fire Over Fire\u201d National Airborne Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Life of Duty sent us this video to help with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31541\">our observance of National Airborne Day<\/a>. Those WWII paratroopers were all heroes. Talk about stepping out into the unknown, most of them hadn&#8217;t even seen an airplane before, let alone seen a parachute jump. Pioneers and heroes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.videodigm.com\/db8d521115b8fee592450287829e09bc\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My favorite line about paratroopers came from the Dick Winters character in Band of Brothers when a leg lieutenant warned him that he was about to be surrounded by the Germans at Bastogne. The Winters character responded &#8220;We&#8217;re paratroopers. We&#8217;re supposed to be surrounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Life of Duty sent us this video to help with our observance of &hellip; <a title=\"Life of Duty; \u201cUnder Fire Over Fire\u201d National Airborne Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31551\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life of Duty; \u201cUnder Fire Over Fire\u201d National Airborne Day<\/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-31551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31551","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=31551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}