{"id":6800,"date":"2013-05-09T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/sky_surfing\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2013-05-13T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:11:49","slug":"a-simple-thing-by-dave-omalley-vintage-wings-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/05\/09\/a-simple-thing-by-dave-omalley-vintage-wings-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Simple Thing&#8221; by Dave O&#8217;Malley &#8211; Vintage Wings of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>By a <strong>grimly large margin<\/strong>, the airmen of <strong>Bomber Command<\/strong> suffered the <strong>highest death rate<\/strong> of any Allied service of the <strong>Second World<\/strong> <strong>War<\/strong>. Why then did it take nearly <strong>70 years to demonstrate our gratitude<\/strong> for their sacrifice?<\/p>\n<p>To learn the story of this recent vindication click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/416\/language\/en-CA\/A-Simple-Thing.aspx\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave O&#8217;Malley &#8211; Vintage Wings of Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/416\/language\/en-CA\/A-Simple-Thing.aspx\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/416\/language\/en-CA\/A-Simple-Thing.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6801\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClaspFlash.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClaspFlash.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClaspFlash-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClaspFlash-570x640.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators, By a grimly large margin, the airmen of Bomber Command suffered the highest death rate of any Allied service of the Second World War. Why then did it take nearly 70 years to demonstrate our gratitude for their sacrifice? To learn the story of this recent vindication click HERE. Dave O&#8217;Malley <a href='https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/05\/09\/a-simple-thing-by-dave-omalley-vintage-wings-of-canada\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-teachable-moments","category-uncategorized","category-18-id","category-10-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}