{"id":76442,"date":"2017-12-10T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76442"},"modified":"2017-12-10T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:54:53","slug":"samuel-crowder-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76442","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Crowder comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76443\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crowder-196x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crowder-196x333.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crowder-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crowder.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>FM1c Samuel Crowder was a member of the crew of the USS Oklahoma when it was struck by a number of Japanese torpedoes on December 7, 1941. He was lost along with 429 of his shipmates. <\/p>\n<p>Hondo told us that his earthly remains were identified back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74528\">September<\/a>. Top Kone sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/story\/37032611\/louisville-sailor-killed-during-attack-on-pearl-harbor-laid-to-rest-76-years-later\">a link to the news<\/a> that his family welcomed him home and now he lies in eternal rest near his mother in Kentucky;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Family members said its amazing how one person&#8217;s life, years later, can reunite a family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has almost been a family reunion. Because we&#8217;re meeting family members that we have never met before from Washington, Oregon and some right here in Louisville,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the very first time we&#8217;ve met our Kentucky family. My brother and I flew out from the west coast and we have never met our cousins out here,\u201d Fred Crowder said.<\/p>\n<p>And while the day was filled with a fix of emotions, there was peace in knowing a hero who gave up his life for his country is finally home, even if it took 76 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s finally time for closure for our entire family,\u201d Crowder said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FM1c Samuel Crowder was a member of the crew of the USS Oklahoma when it was &hellip; <a title=\"Samuel Crowder comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76442\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samuel Crowder comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76442","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\/76442","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=76442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}