{"id":930,"date":"2005-07-04T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=930"},"modified":"2005-07-05T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T05:05:49","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s wishing a happy Independence Day to all, but especially to my friend Bill.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?p=506\">wrote<\/a> back in January of SGT William J. Hartmann, my dear friend and former tank commander who was on his way to Iraq.  In that post, I pointed out that my buddy, in typical Billy-boy fashion, was getting an inordinate amount of print space and face time in stories concerning the deployment of a large portion of the Texas Army National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the trend continues, courtesy of the home page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agd.state.tx.us\/36id\/56BCT\/\">56th Brigade Combat Team<\/a> (click for larger version of photo):<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/images\/Bill_guards_ammo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/images\/Bill_guards_ammo_thumb.jpg\"   alt=\"SGT Hartmann on guard\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Sgt. William J. Hartman [sic] of the 3rd Battalion, 112th Armored Regiment, 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, stand [sic] watch over a pit full of Iraqi mortar rounds waiting to be destroyed by a civilian explosive ordnance disposal team at the Akudar Ammunition Depot located in central Iraq. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for serving for our independence, Bill.  Hope you had a happy Fourth, and keep safe, bro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s wishing a happy Independence Day to all, but especially to my friend Bill. I wrote back in January of SGT William J. Hartmann, my dear friend and former tank commander who was on his way to Iraq. In that post, I pointed out that my buddy, in typical Billy-boy fashion, was getting an inordinate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}