{"id":6706,"date":"2015-07-17T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T19:15:11","slug":"these-are-the-marines-killed-in-the-chattanooga-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/17\/these-are-the-marines-killed-in-the-chattanooga-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"THESE ARE THE MARINES KILLED IN THE CHATTANOOGA ATTACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an Ideal: Instead of pasting the picture of the face of that POS coward shooter everywhere, how about we post pictures of these heroes….and also, say a prayer for all the families as they are going through this dark time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The authorities have begun releasing the names of the four Marines killed in Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez\u2019 attacks on a military recruiting office and Navy -Marine training center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

One of the victims was 40-year-old Marine Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Sullivan of Springfield, Massachusetts. \u201cTerror comes home to Massachusetts. God Bless Tom Sullivan and his family and friends,\u201d wrote Governor Charlie Baker, who extended his condolences to the family, as reported by the\u00a0Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The mayor of Springfield, Domenic J. Sarno, described Sullivan\u2019s killing as an \u201cassassination\u201d and said his death was \u201ca tragic loss not just for the Springfield community but for our entire nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cathedral High School, the Catholic school he graduated from in 1994, posted a Facebook message reading, \u201cThis morning it is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our Cathedral brother, Thomas Sullivan \u201994. Thomas, a Gunnery Sgt., Iraq veteran and Purple Heart recipient was killed yesterday in Chattanooga, Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s brother Joseph, who MassLive<\/a> reports is also a war veteran, is part-owner of an establishment called Nathan Bill\u2019s Bar & Restaurant, which also commemorated him with a Facebook message: \u201cRest In Peace Gunnery SGT. Thomas Sullivan. Anyone who went to Holy Cross School, Cathedral High School or grew up in the East Forest Park knew who Tommy was. He was our hero and he will never be forgotten. Please keep his family & friends in your thoughts & prayers. Thank you Tommy for protecting us.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Fox News<\/a>, Sullivan \u201cserved in India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines and fought in the 2005 Battle of Abu Ghraib, where he earned a Combat Action medal and Purple Heart.\u201d \u00a0A friend testified there was \u201cno Marine you would want that was better in combat than him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who have not heard yet, one of the four Marines murdered today was one of our own \u2013 Thomas Sullivan. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. Semper Fidelis Zimminite!\u201d reads a post on Facebook<\/a> from the India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Breitbart News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an Ideal: Instead of pasting the picture of the face of that POS coward shooter everywhere, how about we post pictures of these heroes….and also, say a prayer for all the families as they are going through this dark time. The authorities have begun releasing the names of the four Marines killed in…<\/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":[1704,74,272],"tags":[1773,1774,1775,1776],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706"}],"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=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}