{"id":87711,"date":"2019-06-05T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87711"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:59:44","slug":"jim-peewee-martin-takes-one-more-jump-into-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87711","title":{"rendered":"Jim &#8220;Peewee&#8221; Martin Takes One More Jump Into Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWII 101<sup>st<\/sup> Airborne paratrooper Jim \u201cPeewee\u201d Martin makes a repeat jump into Normandy at the tender age of 93.\u00a0 You can either sit on it and wither away to nothing, or you can be like Peewee here.\u00a0 It ain&#8217;t over &#8217;til he says it&#8217;s over. Granted, it was done in 2014 on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, but when he goes, he&#8217;s going his way.<\/p>\n<p>Airborne all the way, Jim!!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFI9-XJFWKw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An interview with Jim \u201cPeewee\u201d Martin of the 101st Airborne Division.\u00a0 Plenty of good footage of the events taking place\u00a0 during Operation Market Garden.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sp0IKN6eouw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII 101st Airborne paratrooper Jim \u201cPeewee\u201d Martin makes a repeat jump into Normandy at the tender age of 93.\u00a0 You can either sit on it and wither away to nothing, or you can be like Peewee here.\u00a0 It ain&#8217;t over &#8217;til he says it&#8217;s over. Granted, it was done in 2014 on the 70th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,75,410,12,172,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-blue-skies","category-bravo-zulu","category-gathering-of-eagles","category-geezer-alert","category-historical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mOH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87711","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}