{"id":66278,"date":"2016-06-11T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66278"},"modified":"2016-06-11T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T11:39:28","slug":"private-john-f-prince-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66278","title":{"rendered":"Private John F. Prince comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/John-F-Prince-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"John F Prince\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/John-F-Prince-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/John-F-Prince-768x858.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/John-F-Prince-298x333.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/John-F-Prince.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>HMC Ret sends a link to the news that Private John F. Prince is on his way home after he fell on Betio Island in November 1943. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65146\">Hondo told us<\/a> in April that his remains were identified, now he&#8217;s scheduled to be with his family on June 17th in Calverton, New York. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/queens\/queens-marine-died-pacific-wwii-battle-homecoming-article-1.2669428\">New York Daily News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cIt brings tears to my eyes all the time,\u201d Prince\u2019s Floral Park niece Patricia Donigian, 60, told the Daily News Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s an awesome feeling, like a missing piece of the puzzle of your life is no longer missing. It\u2019s like, wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Jamaica High School, Prince was just 19 when his division made an amphibious landing in November 1943 to overthrow a Japanese airstrip on Betio 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> Family and friends will travel from as far away as Nebraska to remember the young man who made the ultimate sacrifice, Donigian said.<\/p>\n<p>A friend now in his 90s, who knew Prince when they were growing up in Bellerose, Queens, will be there, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMC Ret sends a link to the news that Private John F. Prince is on his &hellip; <a title=\"Private John F. Prince comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66278\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Private John F. Prince comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66278","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=66278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}