{"id":2424,"date":"2010-09-12T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:10:56","slug":"iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>A family member has just been posted to Iraq for the first time, so I here send my best wishes for a safe deployment and return.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>I use this opportunity to remember the one person I know who has not returned from there:&nbsp; Lt Tom Mildinhall, of&nbsp;1st The Queen\u2019s Dragoon Guards,&nbsp;musician and&nbsp;graduate in AI, who died on 28 May 2006, and whom I first met at a performance of <em>Elijah <\/em>in St Paul&#8217;s Church, Hammersmith, in 2000. &nbsp; <em>The Evening Standard<\/em> on 17 March 2008 ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/business.highbeam.com\/5729\/article-1G1-176798483\/my-friend-tom-boy-battersea-never-made-back-iraq-mother\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">story about him<\/a>, containing tributes from his family and friends.&nbsp;&nbsp;Another report about him is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2016-07-06\/a-father-whose-son-was-killed-in-iraq-war-said-blair-should-feel-shame-and-dishonour\/\">here<\/a>.  May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family member has just been posted to Iraq for the first time, so I here send my best wishes for a safe deployment and return. I use this opportunity to remember the one person I know who has not returned from there:&nbsp; Lt Tom Mildinhall, of&nbsp;1st The Queen\u2019s Dragoon Guards,&nbsp;musician and&nbsp;graduate in AI, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,56,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mendelssohn","category-music","category-obits","p1","y2010","m09","d12","h20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14219,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/14219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}