{"id":2493,"date":"2015-03-04T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2015-03-04T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:29:00","slug":"last-surviving-dambusters-pilot-is-selling-off-his-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Last Surviving Dambusters Pilot, is Selling off his Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Les-Munroe.jpg\" alt=\"Les Munroe\" width=\"130\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How sad is this ?<br \/>\n&#8221; Les Munro, the last surviving Dambusters pilot, is selling off his medals to pay for the upkeep of the RAF memorial to bomber crews.&#8221; !!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ageuk\/posts\/976672372357237\">Facebook Link<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike Neville, RAF Benevolent Fund director of strategy and fundraising, said: \u2018Les will consider it a small sacrifice compared to the sacrifice made by thousands of comrades in the war.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(extract from Alan &amp; Rods email)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Foxnwolf comments&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mike Neville and others should make sure Les does not have to sell his &#8220;Hard Earned&#8221; (just yet) towards Memorial Upkeep&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How sad is this ? &#8221; Les Munro, the last surviving Dambusters pilot, is selling off his medals to pay for the upkeep of the RAF memorial to bomber crews.&#8221; !!! &#8220;Facebook Link&#8220; Mike Neville, RAF Benevolent Fund director of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=2493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}