{"id":12680,"date":"2014-09-11T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12680"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T02:06:25","slug":"obit-watch-september-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12680","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: September 11, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/03\/us\/bernard-f-fisher-honored-for-bold-vietnam-rescue-dies-at-87.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Colonel Bernard F. Fisher (USAF &#8211; ret)<\/a> passed away on August 16th, though his death does not appear to have been widely reported until today.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Fisher (he was a major at the time) received the Medal of Honor for pulling off <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_F._Fisher#Medal_of_Honor\" target=\"_blank\">one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Vietnam War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I swear that I read this story in <strong>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/strong> when I was a child, maybe as a &#8220;Drama In Real Life&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>The paper of record does not seem to have deigned to note the passing of Richard &#8220;Jaws&#8221; Kiel, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-richard-kiel-has-died-20140910-story.html#navtype=blogroll\" target=\"_blank\">the <strong>LATimes<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-richard-kiel-jaws-james-bond-movies-209107\" target=\"_blank\">the A\/V Club<\/a> have.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: <strong>now<\/strong> the <strong>NYT<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/12\/arts\/richard-kiel-dies-at-74-played-jaws-in-bond-films.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;version=HpSumSmallMedia&#038;module=pocket-region&#038;region=pocket-region&#038;WT.nav=pocket-region&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">gets around to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Bernard F. Fisher (USAF &#8211; ret) passed away on August 16th, though his death does not appear to have been widely reported until today. Col. Fisher (he was a major at the time) received the Medal of Honor for pulling off one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Vietnam War. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,95,97,31,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-heroism","category-history","category-movies","category-obits","category-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}