{"id":1445,"date":"2011-09-09T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2011-09-09T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:02:12","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tenth anniversary of the atrocity of 9\/11\/01 is upon us. This reminder of sacrifice includes narration by my old friend Jim Supica, now at NRA\u2019s museum:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guns.com\/the-911-revolver-recovered-from-the-world-trade-center.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guns.com\/the-911-revolver-recovered-from-the-world-trade-center.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The revolver appears to be a Smith &#038; Wesson Model 640 five-shot .38 Special, very popular a decade ago as a backup and off duty gun among NYPD personnel.  It bears mute testimony to the crushing weight and intense heat that snuffed out the life of its courageous owner, a young cop named Walter Weaver. He was one of the many firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and ordinary citizens who gave their lives trying to rescue others on that terrible day.<\/p>\n<p>Our news media reminds us of \u201ccredible threats\u201d by our nation\u2019s enemies to memorialize this anniversary with more mass murder of the innocent.  Be vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>9\/11 was to us as Pearl Harbor was to our predecessors. We all remember where we were ten years ago when we heard the news.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re invited to share your memories and perspectives here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tenth anniversary of the atrocity of 9\/11\/01 is upon us. This reminder of sacrifice includes narration by my old friend Jim Supica, now at NRA\u2019s museum: http:\/\/www.guns.com\/the-911-revolver-recovered-from-the-world-trade-center.html The revolver appears to be a Smith &#038; Wesson Model 640 five-shot .38 Special, very popular a decade ago as a backup and off duty gun among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}