{"id":33157,"date":"2012-12-09T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33157"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:20:18","slug":"after-46-years-2-more-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33157","title":{"rendered":"After 46 Years, 2 More Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of two more US service members from the Vietnam War have been <a href=\"http:\/\/theadvocate.com\/news\/4626320-123\/remains-of-captain-killed-in\">located, returned, and identified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of CPT James J. Johnstone and MAJ James L Whited, US Army, were recently recovered and returned to US control.\u00a0 The two had\u00a0 been missing and presumed dead since their OV-1A crashed during a daytime surveillance mission over Laos on 19 November 1966.<\/p>\n<p>After the crash, the site was looted by locals.\u00a0 However, it was apparently the turn-in of CPT Johnstone&#8217;s American Express card to local Laotian authorities 40+ years after the crash that prompted a new investigation of the crash site.\u00a0 That investigation resulted in the recovery and positive identification of the crew&#8217;s remains.<\/p>\n<p>CPT Johnstone will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery on 12 December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A belated welcome home, my elder brothers in arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of two more US service members from the Vietnam War have been located, returned, and identified. The remains of CPT James J. Johnstone and MAJ James L Whited, US Army, were recently recovered and returned to US control.\u00a0 The two had\u00a0 been missing and presumed dead since their OV-1A crashed during a daytime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8CN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}