{"id":86946,"date":"2019-05-13T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86946"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:36:07","slug":"another-one-leaves-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86946","title":{"rendered":"Another One Leaves Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-768x1372.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-186x333.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Navajo Nation has announced the passing of another Code Talker, Fleming Begaye, Sr., at the tender age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>The full story is here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/05\/12\/wwii-era-navajo-code-talker-fleming-begaye-sr-dies-at-97\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/05\/12\/wwii-era-navajo-code-talker-fleming-begaye-sr-dies-at-97\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Per the article:\u00a0 According to the Navajo Nation, Begaye served as a Code Talker from 1943 to 1945 and fought in the Battle of Tarawa and the Batter of Tinian. He spent a year in a naval hospital after being wounded.<\/p>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Begaye later ran a general store in Chinle. &#8211; Military Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>May the road rise to meet him, the wind be always at his back, and may his horses be swift and the hunting plentiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navajo Nation has announced the passing of another Code Talker, Fleming Begaye, Sr., at the &hellip; <a title=\"Another One Leaves Us\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86946\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another One Leaves Us<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86946","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86947,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86946\/revisions\/86947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}