{"id":36992,"date":"2013-08-07T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36992"},"modified":"2013-08-07T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:13:09","slug":"that-st-louis-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36992","title":{"rendered":"That St Louis fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/the-painstaking-effort-to-recover-millions-of-burned-military-service-records-1.233869\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> has a pretty good article on the July 12, 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center that we&#8217;ve so often heard phonies use an excuse for their inaccurate records not squaring with their stories;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The calamity ultimately destroyed the records of about 18 million veterans, including roughly 80 percent for Army personnel discharged between 1912 and 1960 and 75 percent of Air Force personnel discharged between 1947 and 1964.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is actually about my brothers and sisters at the National Archives and their attempts to recover the damaged records;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Decades later, technicians with the National Archives facility in St. Louis still painstakingly search for and process the burnt and brittle personnel files requested by veterans, their wives and children and researchers. Often the requester is looking for proof needed for federal entitlements, such as medical care, education benefits and burial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But if you look at the sidebar, there are also instructions and links for requesting your records and records of your deceased family. I get a couple of requests every week for helping people to get their family&#8217;s records. It&#8217;s easier for you to get those records than it is for me to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes has a pretty good article on the July 12, 1973 fire at &hellip; <a title=\"That St Louis fire\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36992\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That St Louis fire<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992","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=36992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}