{"id":33239,"date":"2015-08-05T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33239"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:51:38","slug":"tarawa-marines-repatriated-70-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/05\/tarawa-marines-repatriated-70-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarawa Marines Repatriated 70 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/s?action=login&amp;f=y&amp;id=318613001&amp;id=318613001\">Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/a> (repeated at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marines-killed-in-world-war-ii-battle-back-on-us-soil-1.359849\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>) covered the repatriation of the remains of 36 US Marines from Tarawa&#8217;s Betio Island, where they fell in battle more than 70 years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>History Flight Inc., a Florida nonprofit that has searched Tarawa for more than five years, announced in June its discovery of a burial trench on Tarawa\u2019s Betio Island, a sandy grave of at least 36 Marines killed Nov. 20-23, 1943&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The flag-draped caskets <!--more-->containing the remains of U.S. Marines killed at the Battle of Tarawa almost 72 years ago arrived at 4 p.m. at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, Tarawa&#8217;s Betio Island is the location of a memorial cross erected for the fallen there:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/tarawa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Memorials like these are the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/05\/12\/mrff-joins-lawsuit-against-memorial-cross\/\">targets of critics<\/a> who would like to see any vestige of religion stripped from the public square &#8212; even if they were erected decades ago to memorialize and honor Americans who fell in battle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (repeated at the Stars and Stripes) covered the repatriation of the remains of 36 US Marines from Tarawa&#8217;s Betio Island, where they fell in battle more than 70 years ago: History Flight Inc., a Florida nonprofit that has searched Tarawa for more than five years, announced in June its discovery of a burial trench on Tarawa\u2019s Betio [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5261,149,522,2,10,2480],"class_list":["post-33239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-betio-island","tag-marines","tag-memorial","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-tarawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}