{"id":71813,"date":"2017-05-02T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71813"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:09:24","slug":"vietnam-helicopter-pilots-and-their-monument-at-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71813","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam helicopter pilots and their monument at Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71814\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vietnam-helicopter-monument-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vietnam-helicopter-monument-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vietnam-helicopter-monument-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vietnam-helicopter-monument-390x333.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/monument-honoring-vietnam-helicopter-crews-approved-for-arlington-cemetery\">Military Times<\/a> reports that the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association has been successful in their efforts to get a monument established at Arlington National Cemetery honoring helicopter crews who served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association members sought action from Congress, and through publicity and nationwide support from the community, the Vietnam Helicopter Crew Monument Act was passed in March. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, introduced the bipartisan legislation. Companion legislation was introduced on the House side by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev. <\/p>\n<p>Baldwin told Army Times that she was moved by [Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bob Hesselbein]\u2019s stories of his own experiences during Vietnam, including &#8220;stories of his friends and comrades that he still knows and those that he lost,\u201d she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Times reports that the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association has been successful in their efforts to &hellip; <a title=\"Vietnam helicopter pilots and their monument at Arlington\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71813\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam helicopter pilots and their monument at Arlington<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71813","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=71813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}