{"id":103318,"date":"2020-08-07T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103318"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:02:50","slug":"105-year-old-wwii-veteran-celebrates-milestone-birthday-with-drive-by-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103318","title":{"rendered":"105-year-old WWII veteran celebrates milestone birthday with drive-by salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasusseniorliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MajBillWhite2.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"377\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major Bill White, USMC (ret)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of days late in catching this, so I apologize for that. This is a story that will warm the stone cold hearts of all you DWs. From Fox News;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired Maj. Bill White, believed to be the oldest\u00a0living\u00a0Marine,\u00a0celebrated a socially distanced 105th birthday with a drive-by salute from his\u00a0Stockton, Calif., neighbors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mustang Major&#8217;s bio is impressive. From the article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After joining the Marine Corps in 1934, White served on active duty for 30 years. During\u00a0World War II, he fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima and received the Purple Heart for injuries from a grenade blast.<\/p>\n<p>Half a decade later, White would also serve during the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, White worked for the\u00a0Huntington Beach Police Department as a reserve officer until he transitioned into a full-fledged officer. Eventually, he became a jailer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he\u00a0volunteered 30 years with the Boys Scouts Explorer Post 563, which later became\u00a0Huntington Beach Search and Rescue Explorer Post\u00a0 563.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy 105th Birthday, Major! Semper Fi!<\/p>\n<p>Article;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/105-year-old-wwii-veteran-celebrates-birthday-with-drive-by-salute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days late in catching this, so I apologize for that. This is a &hellip; <a title=\"105-year-old WWII veteran celebrates milestone birthday with drive-by salute\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103318\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">105-year-old WWII veteran celebrates milestone birthday with drive-by salute<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,184,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-marine-corps","category-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103319,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103318\/revisions\/103319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}