{"id":32978,"date":"2012-11-24T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32978"},"modified":"2012-11-24T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T21:18:18","slug":"rip-larry-hagman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32978","title":{"rendered":"RIP Larry Hagman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Larry-Hagman-USAF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Larry-Hagman-USAF-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Larry Hagman, USAF\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Larry-Hagman-USAF-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Larry-Hagman-USAF.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has been memorializing Larry Hagman who died yesterday, by saying that he was &#8220;best remembered&#8221; as JR in the drama &#8220;Dallas&#8221; but to me, he&#8217;ll always be Air Force Captain\/Major Anthony Nelson on &#8220;I Dream of Jeannie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wiki, Hagman was drafted, at the age of 21, into the Air Force in 1952 (I think that might be a mistake because they say he got out of the service in 1956, which would have been a four year stint, but the draft was only for two years periods, and to the best of my Googling skills, I can&#8217;t find a time when the Air Force ever drafted). <\/p>\n<p>Frankie sent us the picture above of him in his enlisted Air Force uniform. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Hagman\">Wiki says<\/a> that during the Korean War, he spent his Air Force time in London, entertaining the troops in Europe, but he&#8217;s a veteran, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to the draft issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforce-magazine.com\/MagazineArchive\/Pages\/2008\/April%202008\/0408draft.aspx\">I found this<\/a>; <em>A Presidential panel studying the military manpower issue reported in 1970, &#8220;The Navy and Marine Corps have occasionally issued draft calls to meet temporary shortfalls, but the Air Force has never used the draft.&#8221;<\/em> But there&#8217;s no source, so feel free to take shots at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has been memorializing Larry Hagman who died yesterday, by saying that he was &#8220;best remembered&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"RIP Larry Hagman\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32978\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Larry Hagman<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978","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=32978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}