{"id":136,"date":"2015-01-12T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billfortin.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-03-28T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T03:27:01","slug":"a-cold-war-redeye-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"A Cold War Redeye Memory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I&#8217;m very glad to make your acquaintance, George.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billfortin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Redeye-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122\" src=\"http:\/\/billfortin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Redeye-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Red Eye Fulda Cold - A Cold War Novel\" width=\"825\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Redeye-banner.jpg 825w, https:\/\/billfortin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Redeye-banner-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a>Hello Bill,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to contact me and know that I am honored to make your acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded Redeye Fulda Cold from Amazon and am only a little over a quarter of the way into your book and loving it for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>First because I was a project officer involved with the introduction of <strong>Redeye<\/strong> to US Army Hawaii in the early 70&#8217;s. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Second, because as an enlisted man I was assigned to an armo<\/em><em>red 155 field artillery battalion located in Hammelburg, Germany back in the 50&#8217;s. Our mission was to support an armored cavalry unit patrolling the Fulda Gap.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your book is wakening many dormant memories and impressions I had of my first overseas tour in Germany, the alerts, the times spent in the field and of the many unique characters I encountered in my adventures as a young soldier.<\/p>\n<p>I can closely associate with the situations you&#8217;ve so far revealed. Your book isn&#8217;t just telling what I&#8217;m sure will be an interesting story but revealing the emotions that soldiers feel as they are put through the mill and the <em>Snafu&#8217;s<\/em> which are so prevalent in the military. It&#8217;s easy for me to identify with your role in this book. I feel as if I&#8217;m right there with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note:\u00a0 I&#8217;m very glad to make your acquaintance, George. Hello Bill, Thank you for taking the time to contact me and know that I am honored to make your acquaintance. I downloaded Redeye Fulda Cold from Amazon and am only a little over a quarter of the way into your book and loving it for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/?p=136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Cold War Redeye Memory!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-cold-war","tag-a-cold-war-redeye-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}