{"id":5223,"date":"2014-02-20T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T13:52:10","slug":"roger-waters-honors-fallen-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2014\/02\/roger-waters-honors-fallen-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters honors fallen father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd&#8217;s <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> honored <strong>Eric Fletcher Waters<\/strong> at a memorial ceremony in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,&#8221; Waters said at the site of a new marble monument in the town of Aprilia, south of Rome. &#8220;I feel an enormous attachment to my father today. I&#8217;m very happy to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The monument, which commemorates Eric Waters &#8220;and all the other fallen who have no known grave,&#8221; displays lyrics taken from Roger&#8217;s &#8220;Two Suns in the Sunset&#8221; from Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Final Cut&#8221; album: &#8220;Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend; we were all equal in the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The younger Waters was 5-months-old when his father was killed Feb. 18, 1944. His body was never found.<\/p>\n<p>Roger learned details of his death just recently, when WWII veteran <strong>Harry Schindler<\/strong>, 93, who also fought at Anzio, researched the battle and managed to recover a War Diary providing details.<\/p>\n<p>Schindler also attended this week&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roger, I hope that you can go into calmer waters now and that this wall at least is down for you,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/10646870\/Roger-Waters-memorialises-his-fallen-WWII-father.html\">Read more about Roger Waters&#8217;s father and the battle that took his life.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd&#8217;s Roger Waters honored Eric Fletcher Waters at a memorial ceremony in Italy. &#8220;I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,&#8221; Waters said at the site of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personnel","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}