{"id":35332,"date":"2013-04-29T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35332"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:55:19","slug":"alan-wood-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35332","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wood dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Iwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Iwo-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Iwo\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Iwo-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Iwo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several of you have sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/viewart\/20130428\/NEWS\/304280025\/WWII-vet-who-provided-flag-Iwo-Jima-has-died\">the link to the sad news<\/a> that Alan Wood, the man who provided the flag for the iconic raising on Iwo Jima has passed on ahead April 18, 2013;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wood happened to have a 37-square-foot flag he had found months before in a Pearl Harbor Navy depot.<\/p>\n<p>Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman later raised that flag in a stirring moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Wood says his father was always humbled by his small role in the historic moment.<\/p>\n<p>In a 1945 letter to a Marine general who asked for details about the flag, Wood wrote: \u201cThe fact that there were men among us who were able to face a situation like Iwo where human life is so cheap, is something to make humble those of us who were so very fortunate not to be called upon to endure such hell.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent us the link to the sad news that Alan Wood, the &hellip; <a title=\"Alan Wood dies at 90\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35332\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Wood dies at 90<\/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-35332","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\/35332","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=35332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}