{"id":78985,"date":"2024-10-16T01:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=78985"},"modified":"2024-10-16T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:16:47","slug":"when-men-were-men-captain-ronald-c-speirs-us-army-101st-airborne-506-pir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/when-men-were-men-captain-ronald-c-speirs-us-army-101st-airborne-506-pir\/","title":{"rendered":"When Men Were Men: Captain Ronald C. Speirs, US Army, 101st Airborne, 506 PIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78968\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Band-of-Brothers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Band-of-Brothers.png 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Band-of-Brothers-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Band-of-Brothers-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Band-of-Brothers-850x531.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>&#8220;You hid in that ditch because you think there is still Hope, but the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you&#8217;re already Dead. And the sooner you accept that the sooner you will be able to function as a Soldier is supposed to function: Without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All War depends upon it.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Band of Brothers - Ronald C. Speirs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14i_1xx4u3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;You hid in that ditch because you think there is still Hope, but the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you&#8217;re already Dead. And the sooner you accept that the sooner you will be able to function as a Soldier is supposed to function: Without mercy, without compassion, without remorse&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2723,1899],"tags":[3325,18103,6661,18102,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78985"}],"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=78985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78987,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78985\/revisions\/78987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}