{"id":75,"date":"2008-06-25T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","slug":"ltc-jim-walton-g4-kia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"LTC Jim Walton (G4) KIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/users\/usma1989\/46854\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mosimage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/users\/usma1989\/46854\/walton2.jpg\" alt=\"LTC Jim Walton\" width=\"150\" height=\"178\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>With great sadness we report the death of <strong>LTC James J. Walton (G4) &#39;89<\/strong>.&nbsp; Jim was one of four soldiers killed by an IED and small arms fire on June 21, 2008, in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.&nbsp; Please keep his wife, Sarah, in your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>ABC affiliate WJLA TV has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/stories\/0608\/530852.html\">an article<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;related news coverage&nbsp;on Jim&#39;s passing.&nbsp; It tells a story of Jim&#39;s passion for his soldiers and how he was featured last month on an <a href=\"http:\/\/wrow.com\/pages\/pages.php?page=28\">Albany, NY, radio station&#39;s American Heroes segment<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You may post memories or a eulogy to Jim on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/users\/usma1989\/46854\/\">eulogy page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Well done.&nbsp; Be thou at peace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With great sadness we report the death of LTC James J. Walton (G4) &#39;89.&nbsp; Jim was one of four soldiers killed by an IED and small arms fire on June 21, 2008, in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.&nbsp; Please keep his wife, Sarah, in your thoughts and prayers. ABC affiliate WJLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}