{"id":37169,"date":"2019-05-26T02:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37169"},"modified":"2019-05-26T02:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T02:50:40","slug":"neither-rain-nor-thunder-nor-heavy-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37169","title":{"rendered":"Neither rain, nor thunder, nor heavy wind …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The U.S. Postal Service has nothing on at least one soldier with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment.<\/p>\n

With all due respect to the USPS, I have to give a serious shout-out to a soldier for the Old Guard who defied terrible weather today at the Tomb of the Unknown at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

The weather had forced senior officers to order the men who were placing flags at the Arlington cemetery graves to stand down. The weather was too horrible; rain, thunder, lightning and heavy wind pounded the D.C. area.<\/p>\n

But one soldier<\/a> wanted to ensure that a flag was placed at the Tomb of the Unknown. The soldier, who was not identified, braved the elements. According to a Facebook post: “As thunder shook the ground, and rains washed down without abandon, the Tomb Sentinel pierced through the elements with breath-taking precision.”<\/p>\n

Where I come from, that’s what I call “devotion to duty.”<\/p>\n

Well done, soldier.<\/p>\n

As the regiment noted in its Facebook post: “Humans have their limits, but the Old Guard has yet to meet theirs.”<\/p>\n\n

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