{"id":70733,"date":"2017-03-09T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70733"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:16:56","slug":"sfc-robert-cummings-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70733","title":{"rendered":"SFC Robert Cummings comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=70734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Robert-Cummings-232x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Robert-Cummings-232x333.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Robert-Cummings-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Robert-Cummings.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Back in November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69001\">Hondo told us<\/a> that the remains of Sergeant First Class Robert Cummings had been identified by the DPAA. Jill sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/story\/34678798\/66-years-later-fort-campbell-korean-war-soldier-identified-buried\">a link to the <\/a>story that tells about his son, Rex, who waited for the father he never knew;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s what I prayed for,&#8221; said Rex Cummings of Clarksville. &#8220;Never give up. Never give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six years. That&#8217;s how long Cummings has waited. Wife Deborah sat with him on a couch at Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home as he finally got a chance to say goodbye to a man he never had the chance to meet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/story\/news\/local\/clarksville\/2017\/03\/04\/remains-missing-korean-war-veteran-found-laid-rest-after-66-years\/98692638\/\">Leaf-Chronicle<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rex Cummings was born was born two months after his father, Sfc. Robert Roy Cummings, went missing in Korea. Robert Roy Cummings&#8217; remains were found in November, more than half a century after he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t explain it, 66 years of emotions flooding, but the main thing is that I have got my dad back home,&#8221; Rex Cummings said. &#8220;It&#8217;s closure for the family, his brothers and sisters.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, Hondo told us that the remains of Sergeant First Class Robert Cummings had &hellip; <a title=\"SFC Robert Cummings comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70733\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC Robert Cummings comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70733","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\/70733","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=70733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}