{"id":60489,"date":"2015-06-21T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60489"},"modified":"2015-06-21T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:04:07","slug":"a-fathers-day-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60489","title":{"rendered":"A Fathers&#8217; Day story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art sends us a link to the story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/21\/the-stacks-a-son-finds-his-father-on-guadalcanal.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">Daily Beast<\/a> about Peter Richmond whose father was a 26-year-old Captain on Guadalcanal in 1942. His father died at a young age twenty years later and the son went looking for his father&#8217;s story;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cThrough two nights, all hell broke loose,\u201d one of his lieutenants told me about the Ridge. \u201cAnd after that thing was over, some kid who had been through all of that, he said, &#8216;Oh&#8211;here&#8217;s a grenade, I&#8217;m going to move it so nobody kicks it accidentally.&#8217; With that, we all screamed at him, and it went off and killed him. He survived two days of hell, and he tried to do a good thing, and he died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that, while the odds are long, the hand grenade at my feet could very well have been thrown by my father, the 26-year-old captain and commander of G Company, Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, First Marine Division (G-2-5). He lost 30 men on this ridge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long article, so I&#8217;m not stealing it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/21\/the-stacks-a-son-finds-his-father-on-guadalcanal.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29\">Daily Beast<\/a>, but you should read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art sends us a link to the story at the Daily Beast about Peter Richmond whose &hellip; <a title=\"A Fathers&#8217; Day story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60489\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Fathers&#8217; Day story<\/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":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60489","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=60489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}