{"id":573886238,"date":"2014-04-18T23:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T04:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886238"},"modified":"2014-04-28T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T05:58:57","slug":"a-doolittle-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/04\/18\/a-doolittle-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Doolittle anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. I wrote <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewareaglereader.com\/2011\/01\/there-goes-hallmark-story-of-former-auburn-student-captured-during-doolittle-campaign-slowly-coming-to-light\/#.U1FlgGJmSjI\">a story about Dean Hallmark<\/a>, who piloted The Green Hornet, the sixth B-25 to take off from an aircraft carrier.  <\/p>\n<p>That story led to me befriending Adam Hallmark, one of the finest men I know, and his beautiful wife Jessica, some of his friends and a handful of the soldiers with whom Adam has served. <\/p>\n<p>Adam gave me a print of Dean&#8217;s plane, which I hang proudly on my office wall:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr14\/apr37.jpg\" alt=\"DoolittleRaider\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>That little profile taught me more about a particular tale of courage and atrocity. Because of it Lauren and I took the opportunity to visit Dean&#8217;s grave at Arlington. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug13\/aug32.jpg\" alt=\"DoolittleRaider\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>I had the distinct honor and privilege to meet one of the Raiders, 98-year-old <a TARGET=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.doolittleraider.com\/raiders\/cole.htm\">Lt. Col. Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Cole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"720\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qw_IaXZQhno?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qw_IaXZQhno?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It all solidified my respect for what a group of 80 bold, audacious volunteers set out to do. <\/p>\n<p>It is important that we remember, so that others may never forget, brave men live by the motto &#8220;Toujours Au Danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. I wrote a story about Dean Hallmark, who piloted The Green Hornet, the sixth B-25 to take off from an aircraft carrier. That story led to me befriending Adam Hallmark, one of the finest men I know, and his beautiful wife Jessica, some of his friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,32,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-friends","category-history","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573886238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886239,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886238\/revisions\/573886239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}