{"id":75077,"date":"2017-10-02T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75077"},"modified":"2017-10-02T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:51:33","slug":"donald-malarkey-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75077","title":{"rendered":"Donald Malarkey passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Donald-Malarkey-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Donald-Malarkey-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Donald-Malarkey-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Donald-Malarkey.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/01\/donald-malarkey-dies-world-war-two-easy-company-band-of-brothers?CMP=share_btn_fb\">the sad news<\/a> that Donald Malarkey, one of the members of Easy Company, of &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; fame has passed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malarkey fought across France, the Netherlands and Belgium and with Easy Company fought off Nazi advances while surrounded at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.<\/p>\n<p>He was often praised for his actions during the war. In 2009, he was presented with the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur \u2013 the highest honor awarded by the French government.<\/p>\n<p>Malarkey was haunted by memories of combat and the devastation of losing fellow soldiers and friends, his family members said. Still, the release of Band of Brothers was cathartic for him and helped him come to terms with the emotional scars of battle, Hill said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was 96 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us the sad news that Donald Malarkey, one of the members of Easy Company, &hellip; <a title=\"Donald Malarkey passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75077\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Malarkey passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75077","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=75077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}