{"id":998,"date":"2012-05-28T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2012-08-10T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T02:01:02","slug":"in-the-news-memorial-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Memorial Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1001\" title=\"National War Dog Cemetery--Naval Base Guam, US Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John F. Looney [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wwardog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wwardog.jpg 457w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wwardog-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wwardog-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a>The use of dogs in warfare goes back to ancient times, even as far back as the Greeks, and the Egyptians.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-997\" title=\"War dog: Belgian Malinois atop a Bradley, US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall [Public domain], via Wiki Media Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WarDog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WarDog.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WarDog-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>These modern day pictures of a soldier&#8217;s best friend are taken at the US National War Dog Cemetery on Guam and on the front of a Bradley fighting vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of dogs in warfare goes back to ancient times, even as far back as the Greeks, and the Egyptians. During World War I, the Belgians used their Bouviers des Flandres to haul machine guns to the front. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=998\">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":[27,1],"tags":[74,75,76],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-world-war-ii","tag-bradley-fighting-vehicle","tag-memorial-day","tag-war-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}