{"id":9762,"date":"2015-11-26T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:00:52","slug":"giving-thanks-to-the-oss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/26\/giving-thanks-to-the-oss\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks to the OSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9763\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/oss.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"oss\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As today\u2019s security depends increasingly on intelligence and special operators, Congress should act to honor those who paved their way.<\/p>\n<p>What do attorney James Donovan (portrayed by Tom Hanks in \u201cBridge of Spies\u201d), the \u201cFrench Chef\u201d Julia Child, Virginia Hall (the only American civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross during World War <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span>), Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche, Pulitzer Prize recipient Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Hollywood director John Ford, and architect Eero Saarinen (who designed Dulles Airport) have in common? They all served in the Office of Strategic Services, or\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osssociety.org\/\"><span class=\"caps\">OSS<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, the World War <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span> predecessor to the <span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span> and the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span>Special Operations\u00a0Command.<\/p>\n<p>As we commemorate the 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the end of World War <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span> this year &#8211; and increasingly rely on our intelligence and special operations communities to defend the United States &#8211; we should remember that they were born in the crucible of World War\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">II<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/What do attorney James Donovan (portrayed by Tom Hanks in \u201cBridge of Spies\u201d), the \u201cFrench Chef\u201d Julia Child, Virginia Hall (the only American civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross during World War II), Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche, Pulitzer Prize recipient Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Hollywood director John Ford, and architect Eero Saarinen (who designed Dulles Airport) have in common? They all served in the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the World War II predecessor to the CIA and the U.S. Special Operations Command. As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II this year - and increasingly rely on our intelligence and special operations communities to defend the United States - we should remember that they were born in the crucible of World War II.\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As today\u2019s security depends increasingly on intelligence and special operators, Congress should act to honor those who paved their way. What do attorney James Donovan (portrayed by Tom Hanks in \u201cBridge of Spies\u201d), the \u201cFrench Chef\u201d Julia Child, Virginia Hall (the only American civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross during World War II),&#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":[2770,2908,475,1814,1725,1286,1860,1189,10,1899],"tags":[2587,2779,3133,3134,3135,3136,3137,3138],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762"}],"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=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}