{"id":34890,"date":"2013-04-01T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34890"},"modified":"2013-04-01T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:29:08","slug":"highland-illinois-honors-fallen-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34890","title":{"rendered":"Highland, Illinois honors fallen Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tankerswife sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/news\/article\/372671\/3\/Volunteers-plant-flags-to-honor-fallen-Marine\">a link about<\/a> Corporal Aaron Ripperda, one of the Marines who was killed in Nevada last week in a mortar accident during training. His home town, Highland, Illinois, prepares to welcome him home;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the family of Corporal Ripperda, this is more than they could have asked for. For the organizer Larry the Flagman, it&#8217;s important to him for the families to see the support. He thinks what better way, than a sea of red white and blue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reminds them that there was that many people out there putting up these flags,&#8221; says Larry, the Flagman, Eckhardt.<\/p>\n<p>For the past seven years Eckhardt has been traveling across 10 states helping communities show their appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t serve but this is kind of my way of saying thanks for everything that I&#8217;ve been able to enjoy throughout my life,&#8221; he says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2268635075001&#038;playerID=1684488549001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1laJk~,tMO2d6O4mickzCfG8Kpt2wQCZRxpuzpo&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=2268635075001&#038;playerID=1684488549001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1laJk~,tMO2d6O4mickzCfG8Kpt2wQCZRxpuzpo&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can tell from some of the interviews that this is a heart felt tribute, not just going through the motions. I almost wish I could be there among those good and decent Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tankerswife sends us a link about Corporal Aaron Ripperda, one of the Marines who was killed &hellip; <a title=\"Highland, Illinois honors fallen Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34890\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Highland, Illinois honors fallen Marine<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34890","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=34890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}