{"id":85092,"date":"2019-02-18T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85092"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:28","slug":"vietnam-veterans-wall-of-faces-major-aloysius-p-mcgonigal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85092","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Veterans Wall of Faces |  MAJOR ALOYSIUS P MCGONIGAL\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85093\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?resize=478%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?w=478&amp;ssl=1 478w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?resize=239%2C300&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?resize=265%2C333&amp;ssl=1 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we honor Aloysius McGonigal of\u00a0Washington, District of Columbia, who fell on this day in 1968. He is one of 16 chaplains listed on The Wall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On February 17, 1968, Army Chaplain McGonigal joined the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines in the final assault on the Citadel in Hue. While administering comfort and last rites, he was killed by small arms fire. A former physics teacher from Washington, D.C. he was serving the Roman Catholic Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aloysius is remembered on Panel 39E, Line 75 of The Wal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvmf.org\/Wall-of-Faces\/36741\/ALOYSIUS-P-MCGONIGAL?fbclid=IwAR3CfJgQbUV4qLKDQCrXzdRqVNEfkNirGJB9nIzUYmReiVv4BI-5cNAsQ9w\">Virtual Vietnam Veterans Wall of Faces | ALOYSIUS P MCGONIGAL | ARMY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we honor Aloysius McGonigal of\u00a0Washington, District of Columbia, who fell on this day in 1968. He is one of 16 chaplains listed on The Wall. &#8220;On February 17, 1968, Army Chaplain McGonigal joined the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines in the final assault on the Citadel in Hue. While administering comfort and last rites, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":85093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,169,226,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-religion","category-veterans-in-the-news","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mcgonigal.jpg?fit=478%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-m8s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85092","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}