{"id":9931,"date":"2009-04-21T06:51:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9931"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:51:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:51:38","slug":"rip-elisha-ray-nance-the-last-of-the-bedford-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9931","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Elisha Ray Nance, the Last of the Bedford Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/116th_dui-_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/116th_dui-_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"116th_dui-_1\" width=\"141\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9932\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, as a soldier formerly with the 116th, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/20\/AR2009042002524.html\">this one is a sad one.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When World War II broke out, the &#8220;Bedford Boys&#8221; left home to serve. Many of them didn&#8217;t come home _ so many that the community had among the greatest losses per capita on D-Day. <\/p>\n<p>Now the last survivor has died. <\/p>\n<p>Elisha Ray Nance died Sunday in Bedford, a spokesman at Tharp Funeral Home and Crematory said Monday. He was 94. <\/p>\n<p>Nance was among 38 National Guardsmen from the close-knit community of Bedford who were in Company A of the 116th Infantry, a spokeswoman at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation said. On June 6, 1944, 19 were killed when they landed on Omaha Beach at the start of the D-Day invasion. Two more died later.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nServing in the war meant more than a military engagement to the &#8220;Bedford Boys,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is personal. This is family,&#8221; Brooks said. &#8220;When their comrades fall, it&#8217;s not just some guy who was added to the unit three weeks ago.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To honor his fallen brethren, Nance reorganized Company A of the Virginia National Guard in Bedford and was its first commander after World War II. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ever forward Sir.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that the 3-116th Sniper will have more on this later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as a soldier formerly with the 116th, this one is a sad one. When World &hellip; <a title=\"RIP: Elisha Ray Nance, the Last of the Bedford Boys\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9931\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP: Elisha Ray Nance, the Last of the Bedford Boys<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}