{"id":201,"date":"2019-11-05T12:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/?p=201"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:06:15","slug":"the-love-me-nots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/the-love-me-nots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Me Nots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Benjamin Rednour, United States Army, United States Marine Corps<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man fought a fight in a field of flowers,<br \/>\nThough the flowers held the antidote to pain,<br \/>\nPropagandist doctrine driving the machine,<br \/>\nYet all intentions were executed in vain,<br \/>\nChess pawn or puzzle piece I am forethought,<br \/>\nThe predisposition was never made clear,<br \/>\nWhat was once an innocent soul is now lost,<br \/>\nTaken shape a mercenary left to despair.<\/p>\n<hr \/> <div class=\"text-center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/11\/Benjamin-Rednour.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Rednour\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/11\/Benjamin-Rednour.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/11\/Benjamin-Rednour-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a military occupational specialty (MOS) of 13F\/Fire Support Specialist, Benjamin served in the United States Army, 101st Airborne Division from 2001 until 2006, which included two combat deployments to Iraq. He also served in the United States Marine Corps with the 2nd Marine Division from 2007 until 2013 with an MOS of 0861\/Fire Support Man, which included one combat deployment to Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Moshtarak.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin appears in the HBO documentary The Battle for Marjah where he and his fellow Marines of B Company 1st Battalion 6th Marines combat the Taliban in order to take control of their last major stronghold. Operation Moshtarak has been called the most influential mission to take place since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Rednour, United States Army, United States Marine Corps A man fought a fight in a field of flowers, Though the flowers held the antidote to pain, Propagandist doctrine driving the machine, Yet all intentions were executed in vain, Chess pawn or puzzle piece I am forethought, The predisposition was never made clear, What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[330,327],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Love Me Nots - 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