{"id":71441,"date":"2017-04-12T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71441"},"modified":"2017-04-12T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:07:10","slug":"robert-brooks-gets-dignity-he-deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71441","title":{"rendered":"Robert Brooks gets dignity he deserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Robert-Brooks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Robert-Brooks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Robert-Brooks-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Robert-Brooks-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Robert-Brooks.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70910\">Last month <\/a>we talked about Robert Brooks whose earthly remains were found inside a suitcase in a field in Arkansas. His body had been dumped there so his caretakers could continue to get his social security checks. Brooks had been a turret gunner on B-17s during World War II and he didn&#8217;t deserve the grave that his caretakers had planned for him.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/04\/11\/ww-ii-vet-found-dead-in-a-suitcase-gets-the-dignity-he-deserves\/?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&#038;utm_term=.e38587bbaa9c\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that the Patriot Guards made sure that Mr Brooks went home in style;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They listened to Taps in Little Rock and lined up to salute the urn that carried Brooks\u2019s ashes before escorting him to the Tennessee border, where a fresh batch of Patriot Guard Riders joined the procession.<\/p>\n<p>And so it went, through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, toward their final destination, Fort Jackson National Cemetery in South Carolina, where the remains, an American flag and Bible signed by the Patriot Guard captains who carried him there, were given to Jay, [Robert&#8217;s son,] in a reunion 10 years overdue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two more people have been arrested in New York State for the abuse of Mr Brook&#8217;s corpse in addition to the two who were arrested in Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we talked about Robert Brooks whose earthly remains were found inside a suitcase in &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Brooks gets dignity he deserved\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71441\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Brooks gets dignity he deserved<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441","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=71441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}