{"id":41720,"date":"2014-04-01T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41720"},"modified":"2014-04-01T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:43:02","slug":"coby-dillard-remembering-four-who-stood-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41720","title":{"rendered":"Coby Dillard: Remembering four who stood watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41728\" alt=\"Sailors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sailors.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sailors.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sailors-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sailors-500x120.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Coby Dillard writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2014\/03\/dillard-remembering-four-who-stood-watch\">Hampton Roads Pilot<\/a> about the four sailors who&#8217;ve passed on unexpectedly in the last week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early last week, on the destroyer Mahan, Master at Arms 2nd Class Mark Mayo was killed while repelling an unauthorized individual attempting to board the ship. The details are still being investigated, but we know that he shielded another sailor from attack, offering his life in protection of hers.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Midshipman Fourth Class Will McKamey died in Baltimore, three days after collapsing in football practice at the Naval Academy, where he was a freshman running back. On Saturday, Midshipman Third Class Hans Loewen died from injuries received in a skateboarding accident.<\/p>\n<p>And Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton, who spent eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and later became a U.S. senator from Alabama, died Friday in Virginia Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these men joined the Navy for different reasons, in different times and during different conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who call them brother, we salute their service, ready to continue the work from which they stand relieved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Coby Dillard writes in the Hampton Roads Pilot about the four sailors who&#8217;ve passed &hellip; <a title=\"Coby Dillard: Remembering four who stood watch\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41720\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coby Dillard: Remembering four who stood watch<\/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":[75,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720","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=41720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}