{"id":1305,"date":"2014-02-23T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T04:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2014-02-23T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T04:36:20","slug":"23-february-2014-a-day-of-military-significance-often-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/23\/23-february-2014-a-day-of-military-significance-often-overlooked\/","title":{"rendered":"23 February 2014–a Day of Military Significance often Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a rare few minutes to spend reading, I picked up a book given me by my grandson for Christmas this year. A bestseller–James Bradley’s Flyboys <\/strong><\/em>(New York:\u00a0 Little, Brown and Company, 2003).\u00a0 A true story of courage displayed by 9 American airmen in World War II in the Pacific.\u00a0 One of the nine, and the only survivor, was George H. W. Bush, who became the 41st President of the United States.<\/p>\n

Bradley was the son of one of the marines who planted the American Flag on Mount Suribachi–and became part of the most famous, most reproduced, and most recognized photograph in the world. He told that amazing story in Flags of our Fathers,<\/strong><\/em> also a best seller.<\/p>\n

Bradley couldn’t get the men and their fate out of his mind.\u00a0 So he researched and interviewed and revealed the secrets of their history.\u00a0 And he did more–he placed that story into the context of vicious, all-out war.\u00a0 He gave shape and meaning to the horrendous cost in lives and dollars eaten up in World War II.\u00a0 Sparing neither side in their brutality and lack of concern for human life.<\/p>\n

Some of the other military events on 23 February–<\/p>\n

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  1. 1918.<\/strong>\u00a0 Clash of German and Russian troops in World War II led to the birth of the Red Army.\u00a0 And the 23 February became known as Army and Navy Day<\/strong> in Russia.\u00a0 (Swallowed up in 2014 by the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics where Russia won 18 gold medals.)<\/li>\n
  2. 1942.<\/strong>\u00a0 Japanese submarines attacked Santa Barbara Oil Fields on the U.S. Mainland in an abortive attempt to render them useless.<\/li>\n
  3. 1945.<\/strong>\u00a0 It has been 69 years since 6 Marines raised the American Flag on Iwo Jima and infused the American war effort in the Pacific with new life.<\/li>\n
  4. 1991.<\/strong>\u00a0 The U.S. launched the boots-on-the-ground war against Iraq as part of Desert Storm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    20th Century War–created records that detail some of the most atrocious, worrisome, and heartbreaking events in the history of the world in general and for American troops in particular.\u00a0 Still protected by rights of privacy rules and laws, these records will become available in the future for a whole new generation of genealogists.\u00a0 Unlocking the facts behind soldiers’ lives and what they sacrificed for us all.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle \u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n

    PS\u00a0 Stay tuned for updates and details of what’s happening with my non-profit library in Tremonton UT. \u00a0 A few weeks makes a great difference in our goal of opening the Library and its collections to the public.\u00a0 WOW!\u00a0 After a hiatus of years, we are making steady progress on renovations and access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With a rare few minutes to spend reading, I picked up a book given me by my grandson for Christmas this year. A bestseller–James Bradley’s Flyboys (New York:\u00a0 Little, Brown and Company, 2003).\u00a0 A true story of courage displayed by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-20th-century-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}