{"id":60614,"date":"2015-06-29T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60614"},"modified":"2015-06-28T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T22:49:50","slug":"captain-richard-w-vincent-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60614","title":{"rendered":"Captain Richard W. Vincent coming home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post124.org\/\">American Legion Post 124<\/a> in Westfield, Massachusetts write to tell us that they have the honor of laying Captain Richard W. Vincent, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, United States Marine Corps to his final rest. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Vincent has been missing on the island of Tarawa since <a href=\"http:\/\/tarawaontheweb.org\/vincentrichard.htm\">November 20, 1943<\/a>. He was listed as KIA the following January and promoted posthumously from 1st Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December, <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56786\">Hondo reported<\/a> that his earthly remains were finally identified on October 21st, 2014. The Adjutant of Post 124 writes to tell us that he&#8217;ll be laid to rest in his home town of Westfield MA on July 2, 2015 at the family plot in Pine Hill Cemetery with the Legion providing full military honors. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood, you might want to stop by and pay your (our) respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the American Legion Post 124 in Westfield, Massachusetts write to tell us that they have the honor of laying Captain Richard W. Vincent, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, United States Marine Corps to his final rest. Captain Vincent has been missing on the island of Tarawa since November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fLE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60614","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}