{"id":80607,"date":"2018-07-16T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80607"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:49:56","slug":"itta-bena-ms-remembers-fallen-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80607","title":{"rendered":"Itta Bena, MS remembers fallen Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80608\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Itta-Bena-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Itta-Bena-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Itta-Bena-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Itta-Bena-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Itta-Bena.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>BlueCord Dad sends us a link to the story of Itta Bena, Mississippi and their memorial to the 15 Marines and the Navy Corpsman who died in a plane crash last year in a soybean field.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s an active form of memory \u2014 building, telling, hiking, running \u2014 to honor the New York-based crewmembers who flew the KC-130T military transport, as well as the special forces Marines they were carrying from North Carolina to California for training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All we want to do is talk about them and share who they were with the rest of the world,&#8221; said Anna Johnson, the widow of Gunnery Sgt. Brendan Johnson, a crew member.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 family members and friends gathered Saturday in the Mississippi Delta town of Itta Bena to dedicate a monument to the July 10, 2017, crash of the plane, whose call sign was Yanky 72.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueCord Dad sends us a link to the story of Itta Bena, Mississippi and their memorial &hellip; <a title=\"Itta Bena, MS remembers fallen Marines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80607\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Itta Bena, MS remembers fallen Marines<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80607","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\/80607","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=80607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}