{"id":22667,"date":"2011-03-22T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22667"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:38:49","slug":"really-cindy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22667","title":{"rendered":"Really Cindy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to piggy back on <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22664\">Jon&#8217;s post<\/a> about here with this story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1368750\/Libya-Dont-scared-friends-U-S-Air-Force-guns-welcomed-Libyan-rebels-jet-crashes.html\">local&#8217;s reaction <\/a>to the American pilots who crashed in Libya.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last night.<\/p>\n<p>And a handful of locals who had come to greet the pilot were hit &#8211; among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound.<\/p>\n<p>A second aviator &#8211; the F15&#8217;s weapons officer &#8211; was found in a field full of sheep and was greeted like a hero by locals and anti-Gaddafi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>As the officer was surrounded by villagers, he held his arms out, calling &#8216;okay, okay&#8217;, according to the Evening Standard &#8211; but the grateful Libyans queued to thank him and give him juice.<\/p>\n<p>Younis Amruni told the newspaper: &#8216;I hugged him and said &#8220;Don&#8217;t be scared, we are your friends&#8221;. We are so grateful to these men who are protecting the skies.&#8217;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to piggy back on Jon&#8217;s post about here with this story about the local&#8217;s reaction to the American pilots who crashed in Libya. Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. The helicopter strafed the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-breaking-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5TB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}