{"id":147284,"date":"2025-06-06T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=147284"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T12:22:20","slug":"for-film-comment-and-d-day-they-were-expendable-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=147284","title":{"rendered":"For D-Day: John Ford’s They Were Expendable<\/i> (1945)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn 2019, for D-Day, I wrote about John Ford’s magnificent They Were Expendable<\/i><\/a>, one of the best war movies ever made. <\/p>\n

Thank you to all those who sacrificed their lives — not just Americans — in the name of liberty and the sacred – yes, sacred – importance of the dignity of every human life. Your spirit inspires me now. We faced this once, we can face it again.<\/p>\n

Here’s a post I put up every year: a compilation of quotes<\/a> from the men (and boys) “storming the beach” at Normandy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2019, for D-Day, I wrote about John Ford’s magnificent They Were Expendable, one of the best war movies ever made. Thank you to all those who sacrificed their lives — not just Americans — in the name of liberty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[274,114,141,2545,1102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199694,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147284\/revisions\/199694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}