{"id":4631,"date":"2005-10-05T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/index.php\/archives\/caption-this-one-051005\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:06:25","slug":"why-i-love-the-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/why-i-love-the-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love the Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/index.php?u_pg=1638&#038;u_sid=2023748&#038;u_rnd=5565479\"><center><img src='http:\/\/sgtstryker.com\/wp-images\/92405aaburghardt.jpg' alt='' \/><\/center><\/a><br \/>\nLink requires registration.<\/p>\n<p>Ya gotta love this guy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burghardt was wounded.<\/p>\n<p>But with two new young Marines in his ordnance disposal unit &#8211; and the insurgent attackers undoubtedly looking on &#8211; &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want them to see the team leader carried away on a stretcher,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>So after the Nebraskans tended to wounds that reached from his boot tops to the small of his back, Burghardt rose to his feet and reached back with a one-finger salute for his attackers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was angry,&#8221; Burghardt said.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As for Burghardt, he said he wanted to send a message to the insurgents who failed to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew there was somebody disappointed out there.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravnwood.com\/\">Ravenwood<\/a> who got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/smallestminority.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/badass.html\">The Smallest Minority<\/a> who got it from&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/index.php?u_pg=1638&#038;u_sid=2023748&#038;u_rnd=5565479\">my local newspapaer?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link requires registration. Ya gotta love this guy. Burghardt was wounded. But with two new young Marines in his ordnance disposal unit &#8211; and the insurgent attackers undoubtedly looking on &#8211; &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want them to see the team leader carried away on a stretcher,&#8221; he said. So after the Nebraskans tended to wounds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-the-good","category-iraq-the-ugly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}