{"id":72553,"date":"2017-06-11T21:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=72553"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:09:52","slug":"the-washington-post-thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2017\/06\/11\/the-washington-post-thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post: &#8220;Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Washington Post: &#8220;Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><em>11 June 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mosul, Iraq<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72545\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 900px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72545\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4452.jpg\" alt=\"Armored ambulance and our family in the back line. Thanks for all of you who help us be here - physically and spiritually!\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4452.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4452-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4452-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Armored ambulance and our family in the back line. Thanks for all of you who help us be here &#8211; physically and spiritually!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt from the article:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Eubank family has a guiding principle \u2014 if other families are forced to live in war zones, there should be no issue with theirs being on hand to help.<\/p>\n<p>And so as Iraqi forces pushed into the last pockets of <a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iraqi-forces-open-new-front-in-mosul-offensive-gearing-up-for-a-final-showdown\/2017\/05\/04\/a2fd1596-30c7-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html?utm_term=.be9a6aa685c7\" shape=\"rect\">western Mosul<\/a> still under Islamic State control, an American mom was home-schooling her three children in a room above a medic station deep inside the city.<\/p>\n<p>Sahale, 16, and Suuzanne, 14, sat in a corner near their mother, Karen, working on their laptops and occasionally bursting into song. Peter, 11, lay on a camping mat on the floor doing math. They sleep in a house a short drive away, but spend their days at the medic station to assist and give supplies to fleeing Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p>About a mile away at the front line, their father, David, who says he served for a decade in the U.S. military including in the Army\u2019s Special Forces, evacuated families as they came under sniper fire from Islamic State militants.<\/p>\n<p>It was just an average day for the Eubanks, who describe their work as a calling from God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the story, please click the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in\/2017\/06\/08\/f4a62310-4bb6-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.2057847e64cf\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in\/2017\/06\/08\/f4a62310-4bb6-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.2057847e64cf<\/a><\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":72553,\"title\":\"The Washington Post: &#8220;Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in&#8221;\",\"subject\":\"FBR: The Washington Post: &#8220;Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in&#8221;\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: &#8220;Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in&#8221; 11 June 2017 Mosul, Iraq &nbsp; Excerpt from the article: &#8220;The Eubank family has a guiding principle \u2014 if other families are forced to live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2017\/06\/11\/the-washington-post-thousands-of-iraqis-have-fled-mosul-but-this-american-family-moved-in\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":72545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-iraq-reports"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72564,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72553\/revisions\/72564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}