{"id":45984,"date":"2021-09-22T03:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=45984"},"modified":"2021-09-22T03:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:35:42","slug":"black-hearted-devils-honoring-the-82nd-airborne-504th-pir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/black-hearted-devils-honoring-the-82nd-airborne-504th-pir\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-Hearted Devils &#8211; Honoring the 82nd Airborne\/504th PIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4gwtimes.blogspot.com\/2021\/09\/devils.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePatrolBase+%28The+Patrol+Base%29\">Black-Hearted Devils<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45986\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/the-devils-in-baggy-pants-entry-found-in-the-diary-1572352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>In case you cannot read the small print in the above picture, here it is:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>\u201cAmerican parachutists, devils in baggy pants, are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can\u2019t sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Here is a link to the amazing WW2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/82ndAirborneDivision\/posts\/this-day-in-all-american-history-04-february-1944black-hearted-devilsduring-the-\/10160062359935387\/\">STORY<\/a> from where this quote is taken.<\/h2>\n<h2>I wanted to take a minute and honor the unit that my friend Jim served in over at <a href=\"https:\/\/4gwtimes.blogspot.com\/\">Patrol Base,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ww2-airborne.us\/units\/504\/504.html\">82nd Airborne\/504th PIR.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Talk about a group of hard chargers! Next to the Marines, I would be proud to wade into the shit with these guys any day of the week!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-Hearted Devils &nbsp; &nbsp; In case you cannot read the small print in the above picture, here it is: \u201cAmerican parachutists, devils in baggy pants, are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can\u2019t sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[6096,1286,1899],"tags":[9495,9496,9497,9498,4123,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45984"}],"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=45984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}