{"id":12999,"date":"2016-03-11T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2016-03-11T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:07:07","slug":"mind-shattering-ww2-vet-recalls-terrifying-din-of-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/11\/mind-shattering-ww2-vet-recalls-terrifying-din-of-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mind Shattering&#8221; WW2 Vet Recalls Terrifying Din of Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13000\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/ww2.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"WW2\" width=\"620\" height=\"492\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>\u201cThat shrill sound is something I\u2019ve never heard duplicated. It\u2019s just mind-shattering.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>BATTLEFIELDS<\/strong> are loud places \u2013 deafeningly loud. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a>, hearing damage is by far the most common disability reported by soldiers in combat. In fact, more than 400,000 Americans who served overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/commentary\/article\/Hearing-loss-a-silent-military-epidemic-4991782.php\">receiving disability benefits for some form of noise-induced hearing loss<\/a>. And it was no different for the fighting men of World War Two. In this latest recording from our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audioburst.com\/\">AudioBurst.com<\/a>, one veteran of the 1944 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/thewar\/detail_5225.htm\">Allied campaign to liberate southern France<\/a> describes how one particular sound of combat continues to haunt him to this day: the ear-splitting shriek of German artillery. LISTEN BELOW.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2016\/03\/11\/mind-shattering-ww2-vet-recalls-the-terrifying-din-of-battle-listen\/\">Military History Now<\/a> <\/strong>to Listen to this 2 Minute Audio Clip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat shrill sound is something I\u2019ve never heard duplicated. It\u2019s just mind-shattering.\u201d BATTLEFIELDS are loud places \u2013 deafeningly loud. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, hearing damage is by far the most common disability reported by soldiers in combat. In fact, more than 400,000 Americans who served overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,1286,2820,1899],"tags":[5394,3823,5395,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}