{"id":2177,"date":"2004-04-18T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2004-04-18T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:49:06","slug":"apocalypse-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five sets of remains believed to be those of American soldiers who went missing during the Vietnam War <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,117412,00.html\">were sent home Sunday <\/a>nearly 30 years after the war ended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The remains were loaded onto a C-17 transport plane in central Danang, from where they were to be flown to an Army laboratory in Honolulu for identification. <\/p>\n<p>The remains were located in central and southern Vietnam by a joint recovery team that searches for soldiers missing in action, said Lt. Col. Ty Smith, commander of the U.S. MIA office in Hanoi. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m honored to give those missing a final salute as they go into the aircraft,&#8221; Smith said, adding that repatriation ceremonies are especially rewarding for the young military personnel who spend weeks and sometimes months scouring the jungle to locate remains. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s their dedication that actually makes this happen,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Some 1,800 American soldiers remain unaccounted for in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A16299-2004Apr15.html\">the message <\/a>yet, Teddy?  Here, perhaps I can help: <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Iraq:VietNam :: Ted Kennedy:sober\/thin\/sane.<\/div>\n<p>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five sets of remains believed to be those of American soldiers who went missing during the Vietnam War were sent home Sunday nearly 30 years after the war ended.&#8221; The remains were loaded onto a C-17 transport plane in central Danang, from where they were to be flown to an Army laboratory in Honolulu for identification. The remains were located in central and southern Vietnam by a joint recovery team<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2177\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}