{"id":64816,"date":"2016-03-14T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64816"},"modified":"2016-03-14T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:07:38","slug":"congressional-gold-medal-for-ghost-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64816","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Gold Medal for &#8220;Ghost Army&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64817\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dummy_M4Sherman_44-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Dummy_M4Sherman_44\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dummy_M4Sherman_44-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dummy_M4Sherman_44-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dummy_M4Sherman_44-500x262.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dummy_M4Sherman_44.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>David sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/03\/13\/congressional-gold-medal-sought-for-ww-ii-ghost-army-that-duped-nazis.html\">Fox News<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure you remember the stories about the false units that were placed under the command of General Patton across the English Channel from Calais, France to distract the Germans from the Normandy Invasion. Well, Congress has decided that those units (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostarmy.org\/\">The Ghost Army<\/a>) deserve some praise from Congress in the form of the Congressional Gold Medal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two lawmakers say the Ghost Army\u2019s battlefield exploits in the months after D-Day deserve recognition at long last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is finally time that the American people recognize their ingenuity and selflessness which saved countless American and Allied lives,\u201d Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said.  \u201cThey deserve their due.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King and Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) are sponsoring the \u201cThe Ghost Army Gold Medal Act\u201d and the bill has already picked up 30 co-sponsors, The Washington Times reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A companion bill will be introduced soon in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostarmy.org\/blog\/f\/c\/906\">The Ghost Army<\/a> website;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ghost Army carried out 21 battlefield deceptions from June 1944 to March 1945.  They often operated on or near the front lines in order to divert enemy attention away from actual units. Three of them were killed and dozens wounded, but they are credited with saving thousands of American lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to Fox News. I&#8217;m sure you remember the stories about the &hellip; <a title=\"Congressional Gold Medal for &#8220;Ghost Army&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64816\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressional Gold Medal for &#8220;Ghost Army&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816","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=64816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}