{"id":105107,"date":"2020-09-16T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105107"},"modified":"2020-09-15T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:16:27","slug":"air-force-korean-war-veteran-gives-away-8b-fortune-to-die-relatively-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105107","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Korean War veteran gives away $8B fortune to die (relatively) poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/www.medalofphilanthropy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Feeney-Charles.jpg\" width=\"494\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After serving in the Air Force as a radio operator during the Korean War, Chuck Feeney attended Cornell University on the GI Bill. He then built an $8 billion fortune after starting the Duty-Free Shoppers business familiar to airport travellers the world over.<\/p>\n<p>A notoriously frugal man, he pledged 40 years ago to give away all his money (save a $2 million nest egg for he and his wife to retire on) to charity. At ago 89 he&#8217;s finally made good on that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenbertoni\/2020\/09\/15\/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes has the details<\/a> on his giving. In contrast to most rich people who give money and boast about it to make themselves look virtuous, Feeney did it all in secret. He&#8217;s been called the &#8220;James Bond of philanthropy&#8221; for his generous giving in silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving in the Air Force as a radio operator during the Korean War, Chuck Feeney &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force Korean War veteran gives away $8B fortune to die (relatively) poor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105107\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force Korean War veteran gives away $8B fortune to die (relatively) poor<\/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":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105107","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=105107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105108,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105107\/revisions\/105108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}