{"id":499,"date":"2017-03-14T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2017-03-14T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:54:40","slug":"brothers-in-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/brothers-in-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers in Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990&#8217;s I developed a friendship with Maurice Rooney who was a FEPOW living within 20 miles from me at Norwich. From our chats on the phone and emails we put together his story &#8216;Brothers in Arms&#8217; and he let me have an audio recording which he made in 1991. I miss our chats, especially when I lost my own father in 2001, Maurice helped soothe the loss and the pain of losing the COFEPOW site in the same year. Maurice died 2002. During the following years I lost the w<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">eb site pages (nod) as my computer went down. Just recently I started putting his story together again, mainly for the book I am writing, but also believe Maurice would like it placed within &#8216;Far Eastern Heroes&#8217; for all to read and listen to as originally intended. I must admit I did get choked up when it was completed and I read through it and listened to his recording.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nThis is his story &#8216;Brothers in Arms&#8217; which does hold my copyright:-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk\/Brothers_in_Arms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk\/Brothers_in_Arms<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990&#8217;s I developed a friendship with Maurice Rooney who was a FEPOW living within 20 miles from me at Norwich. From our chats on the phone and emails we put together his story &#8216;Brothers in Arms&#8217; and he let me have an audio recording which he made in 1991. I miss our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/brothers-in-arms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brothers in Arms&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fepow.family\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}