{"id":1329,"date":"2013-03-29T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:45:59","slug":"march-29-1973-last-u-s-combat-troops-depart-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/march-29-1973-last-u-s-combat-troops-depart-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"March 29, 1973: Last U.S. Combat Troops Depart Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forty years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops departed Vietnam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The following article is from <em>Vietnam Veterans of America<\/em> March-April 2013 edition. A Troop 3\/17th Air Cav lost 56 brave Troopers serving our country from 1967-1971. Five during my tour with the Silver Spurs. These fallen heroes are not forgotten by their families or the Troopers that served with them when our country called.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lasttoleave.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/qMl_9AtOD30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=15898\">Statement by Secretary Chuck Hagel on Vietnam Veterans Day<\/a> &#8211; <i>DoD<\/i> &#8211; 29 Mar 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops departed Vietnam. The following article is from Vietnam Veterans of America March-April 2013 edition. A Troop 3\/17th Air Cav lost 56 brave Troopers serving our country from 1967-1971. Five during my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/march-29-1973-last-u-s-combat-troops-depart-vietnam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}