{"id":12930,"date":"2015-02-01T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:45:14","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Dec\/Jan Zephyr) Remembering WWII, The \u2018Bulge\u2019 &#038; \u2018That Jerk\u2019 Patton\u2026 from a 1989 interview with Moabite ED McCARRICK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>December 7, 1941\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><br \/>\nI was in a store in Newark, N.J. buying candy when the news of Pearl Harbor came across on the radio.\u00a0 I was already registered<\/p>\n<p>for the draft.\u00a0 I\u2019d done it the previous July and so I knew I was going to be in the Army.\u00a0 I decided I\u2019d rather get in the Marines. I probably liked the uniform or something.\u00a0 I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>But my draft board wouldn\u2019t release me because they had to meet their quota.\u00a0 Maybe they did me a favor; if I\u2019d been in the Marines, I might\u2019ve been knocked off at Guadalcanal.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read more of Ed&#8217;s Account of the Battle of the Bulge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bulge-pubdo2.jpg\" alt=\"Kriegsgefangene amerikanische Soldaten\" width=\"499\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bulge-pubdo2.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bulge-pubdo2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/remembering-wwii-the-bulge-that-jerk-patton-from-a-1989-interview-with-moabite-ed-mccarrick\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: December 7, 1941\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was in a store in Newark, N.J. buying candy when the news of Pearl Harbor came across on the radio.\u00a0 I was already registered for the draft.\u00a0 I\u2019d done it the previous July and so I knew I was going to be in the Army.\u00a0 I decided I\u2019d rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12931,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}