{"id":31835,"date":"2012-09-01T05:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T09:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31835"},"modified":"2012-09-01T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T09:55:10","slug":"youngest-normandy-beachmaster-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31835","title":{"rendered":"Youngest Normandy Beachmaster Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the rapidly-dwindling Greatest Generation has passed.\u00a0 The youngest of the 18 Navy beachmasters at Normandy &#8211; Joseph P. Vaghi, Jr. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2012\/08\/ap-world-war-2-dday-beachmaster-joseph-vaghi-dies-082912\/\">passed away a week ago<\/a>.\u00a0 He was 92.<\/p>\n<p>None of the other beachmasters at Normandy are known to be still living; that group now appears gone forever.\u00a0\u00a0 But they&#8217;re not forgotten by history.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, my elder brother-in-arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the rapidly-dwindling Greatest Generation has passed.\u00a0 The youngest of the 18 Navy beachmasters at &hellip; <a title=\"Youngest Normandy Beachmaster Passes Away\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31835\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youngest Normandy Beachmaster Passes Away<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}