{"id":95,"date":"2007-12-20T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:04:50","slug":"band-of-brothers-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"Band of Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/davids-company-in-woods.JPG\" title=\"Band of Brothers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/davids-company-in-woods.JPG\" alt=\"Band of Brothers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">David &amp; some of his buddies ~ February, 1945<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo that David sent to Macey in one of his letters, and which Macey alludes to it in his July 4, 1945 letter to Mom-Mom and Louise. It was taken during a brief respite in February 1945, while elements of the Allied advance were stalled, awaiting an end to the pre-Spring flood waters. In spite of living one the edge in a world gone mad, these guys seem pretty relaxed. It is a wonderful moment in time. I imagine it to be a fine, fair day, redolent with the mixed scent of pine needles and victory; a time of almost painful camaraderie, balanced on a tentative edge of a hope that the worst is past and the end is in sight. It is very likely one of the last photographs of David.<\/p>\n<p>Although you\u2019ve seen some of these guys in other pictures, several are new faces.<\/p>\n<p>Standing (L to R): Stanley Kots (MA), Clayton Schwind (NY), Spencer Celing (MD), Creighton Gardner<br \/>\nCrouched (L to R): David, Williams, James Azur, Winston Stables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David &amp; some of his buddies ~ February, 1945 This is a photo that David sent to Macey in one of his letters, and which Macey alludes to it in his July 4, 1945 letter to Mom-Mom and Louise. It was taken during a brief respite in February 1945, while elements of the Allied advance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=95\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}