{"id":930,"date":"2017-04-30T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T05:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=930"},"modified":"2019-05-10T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T03:29:09","slug":"home432","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Star Spangled Banner<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our National Anthem<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-930-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/37anthem.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/37anthem.mp3\">https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/37anthem.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Welcome!<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Walsh Post 432 is under construction.&nbsp; Please visit us often for updated content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Our purpose is to provide a record of the many Terril area men and women who have served our nation in the military during war and peacetime.&nbsp; Following their service, many returned to the Terril area and continued to serve the community as members of the American Legion.&nbsp; Others with Terril connections lived elsewhere in our great nation.&nbsp; Of course, we must never cease to honor those who did not return home from their service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Information about The Legion <\/strong><\/li><li><strong> Area Military Personnel: &nbsp;Service Records, Newspaper Clippings and Letters Home <\/strong><\/li><li><strong> War and Battle General Information <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AmerLegion-Emblem_LARGE.jpg 1994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"> The <strong>Terril American Legion Walsh Post 432<\/strong> was granted it&#8217;s charter on February 10th, 1920.&nbsp; The first Legionnaires decided to name the Post in honor of <strong>Corporal James Walsh<\/strong>, who was one of the first to enlist from the Terril community and was also the first one to make the supreme sacrifice during World War I near Mount Saint Pierre, France on July 24, 1918.&nbsp; Corporal Walsh&#8217;s body rested for two years in France. He was returned to the United States and buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois on July 31, 1921. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3613\" width=\"768\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005-414x270.jpg 414w, https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/005.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>American Legion Building<br>Terril, Iowa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The Terril Record<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>The Terril Record<\/em>&nbsp;was the local newspaper during World War II. &nbsp;The publishers of the newspaper were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Grow, whose son Pfc. Bernard Grow was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan. &nbsp;He perished in a Japanese prison camp in 1944. &nbsp;The Grows spent the war years publishing extensive coverage of the area service personnel, notices of stationing, leaves, and wartime experiences. &nbsp;They were constant morale boosters for the community which included sending copies of the paper to &#8220;the boys&#8221; stationed around the world. &nbsp;They published snippets of news and letters which &#8220;the boys&#8221; sent home to&nbsp;<em>The Terril Record<\/em>&nbsp;and to families at home. &nbsp;Their efforts have proved to be an extensive archive of Terril WW II history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Please visit the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Letters Home&quot; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=2096\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Letters Home&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> pages in the WW II archive to read articles printed in <em>The Terril Record<\/em> and in other area newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Parade of Flags, Fairview Cemetery, Terril, IA 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignright is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color has-background has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/?page_id=158\"><strong>Next Page<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Spangled Banner Our National Anthem Welcome! 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Our purpose is to provide a record of the many Terril area men and women who have served our nation in the military during war and peacetime.&nbsp; Following their service, many returned to the Terril area and continued to serve the community as members of the American Legion.&nbsp; Others with Terril connections lived elsewhere in our great nation.&nbsp; Of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-930","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrilwalshpost432.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}