{"id":69657,"date":"2017-01-03T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69657"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:35:57","slug":"joe-england-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69657","title":{"rendered":"Joe England passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Joe-England-443x333.png\" alt=\"Joe England\" width=\"443\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Joe-England-443x333.png 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Joe-England-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Joe-England-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Joe-England.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jilly sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/dickson\/2017\/01\/03\/funeral-today-white-bluffs-joe-england-korean-war-pow\/96110252\/\">the sad news<\/a> of the passing of Joe England last Friday at the tender age of 84. Mr England spent nearly three years as a POW during the Korean War. He doesn&#8217;t appear on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/\">DPAA list<\/a>, but I verified it with Mary who says that he was POW from Nov. 28, 1950 &#8211; Aug. 24, 1953. DPAA&#8217;s records for the Korean War are notoriously inaccurate only because of personnel accounting during the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>England received a Purple Heart early when his tank\u2019s 50-caliber machine gun blew up while being fired, he said during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the hospital, England was assigned to a new company.<\/p>\n<p>The night he was captured by North Koreans, England said his company had five tanks located in a valley. During the attack, England said his tank was \u201chit\u201d three times and finally blown up, but he escaped from vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the war, he opened a bait and tackle shop.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral is scheduled for three o&#8217;clock today in Dickson, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jilly sends us the sad news of the passing of Joe England last Friday at the &hellip; <a title=\"Joe England passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69657\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe England passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69657","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\/69657","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=69657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}