{"id":74184,"date":"2017-08-24T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74184"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:00:05","slug":"marine-corporal-henry-andregg-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74184","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corporal Henry Andregg comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WCRB<\/a> reports that Marine Corporal Henry Andregg will come home after 75 years from Betio Island. He was assigned to Company C, 2nd Amphibious Tractor Btn, 2nd Marine Division before he fell in the first wave of Marines to assault the Japanese defenses on that island.<\/p>\n

He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, and was memorialized as one of the missing Marines from the Battle of Tarawa at The Honolulu Memorial National Cemetery of the Pacific. <\/p>\n

Funeral services will be held in at The Reed Funeral Home on Friday, August 25, 2017 at 10:00 am CDT. Cpl. Andregg will be escorted by 1st Sergeant William Conner, of Battery M, 3rd Btn, 14th Marine Division Burial will follow at Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors provided. <\/p>\n

The family will receive friends on Thursday, August 24, from 3:00 until 7:00 pm CDT. Online condolences can be made at www.reedfamilyfh.com<\/p>\n

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sequatchie Valley Honor Guard, P.O. Box 786, Jasper, TN, 37347<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hondo told us that he’d been identified last Spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has ordered flags there lowered to half-staff on Friday to honor Corporal Andregg’s “ultimate sacrifice”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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