{"id":4691,"date":"2014-03-17T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2014-03-17T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:38:06","slug":"memorial-to-allen-mosteiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/03\/memorial-to-allen-mosteiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to Allen Mosteiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 90’s I served with Allen Mosteiro<\/a> in the scout platoon from 1\/8 CAV, 1st Cavalry Division. \u00a0We were roommates and party mates and served together for three years. \u00a0Our platoon was called the Ghostriders and as a platoon we worked hard and played hard. \u00a0My three years there from 92-95 were some of my best years in the army and I have stayed in contact with many of my brothers in the Ghostriders since, both those who stayed in the Army and those who got out.<\/p>\n

\"Mosteiro<\/p>\n

Mosteiro was one of those who stayed in. \u00a0We did not serve together again but I did run into him a few times over the coming years. \u00a0In 2007 while serving as a Platoon Sergeant in 1\/7 Cav he was killed in Taji, Iraq by a sniper. \u00a0The word quickly went out to our fellow Ghostriders. \u00a0He was buried in the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery<\/a> just outside of Killeen, Texas. \u00a0I happened to be stationed at Forth Hood at the time and could go to the funeral as a representative of his old platoon, the Ghostriders.<\/p>\n

Last year, I discovered the National Armor and Cavalry Heritage Museum was conducting a fundraiser to help defray the costs of building their new museum and selling memorial pavers. \u00a0I quickly contacted all my old Ghostrider brothers to float the idea of buying one for Allen. \u00a0It was not a question and we all came together and purchased one. \u00a0Last week, I got the miniature paver in the mail to show what the full-size paver will look like.<\/p>\n

Allen is not forgotten by his former comrades and will always remain our brother.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 90’s I served with Allen Mosteiro in the scout platoon from 1\/8 CAV, 1st Cavalry Division. \u00a0We were roommates and party mates and served together for three years. \u00a0Our platoon was called the Ghostriders and as a… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[904,906,805,905,603,573],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-culture","tag-18-cav","tag-brother","tag-commemoration","tag-ghostriders","tag-memorials","tag-war-memorials","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}