{"id":6484,"date":"2020-05-25T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:05:07","slug":"in-the-news-memorial-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Memorial Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6486\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6486\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6486\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga-1536x973.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MilitaryWorkingDogDaga.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military Working Dog, Daga<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 25 May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph to the left shows working dog Army K-9 officer Daga, a Belgian Malinois. Daga is a member\u00a0 of the 793rd Military Police Battalion&#8212;a unit that saw almost seventy-two years of consecutive service, including service overseas in Europe during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>During World War I, the Belgians used their <em>Bouviers des Flandres<\/em> to haul machine guns to the front. In World War II, dogs were used to warn of ambushes and to detect arms caches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We honour our troops and veterans on Memorial Day, Monday 25 May 2020. The photograph to the left shows working dog Army K-9 officer Daga, a Belgian Malinois. Daga is a member\u00a0 of the 793rd Military Police Battalion&#8212;a unit that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[75,480],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-memorial-day","tag-military-working-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}