{"id":61092,"date":"2015-07-29T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61092"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:06:42","slug":"a-day-late-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61092","title":{"rendered":"A Day Late&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely check in to FB, thus I missed this post yesterday on\u00a0 the <a id=\"js_t\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lt-General-Hal-Moore\/59545011275?fref=nf\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=59545011275&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D\">Lt General Hal Moore<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/theday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/theday-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"theday\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/theday-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/theday-500x273.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/theday.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get there until January 1966 so <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Ia_Drang\">Ia Drang<\/a> was already history of a sort. From off-shore the battles were simply lights in the nighttime sky on occasion. That and listening to some aircrew member our chopper had picked up talking about where he&#8217;d been when he got shot down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Ia_Drang\">the movie<\/a> as I suspect many here have. Some of us share the Vietnam Service Award, but the only memories we can actually share are those of coming home.<\/p>\n<p>I could stretch this out, but with Jonn&#8217;s indulgence I&#8217;ll leave this fairly short.<\/p>\n<p>History ignored has a funny way of repeating itself so reminders serve a purpose for those few who pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely check in to FB, thus I missed this post yesterday on\u00a0 the Lt General &hellip; <a title=\"A Day Late&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61092\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Day Late&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}