{"id":145297,"date":"2023-08-05T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145297"},"modified":"2023-08-04T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:11:08","slug":"belgian-beer-bearing-battered-bastard-of-bastogne-dies-age-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145297","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Beer Bearing Battered Bastard of Bastogne dies, age 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109117 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/airborne-beer-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/airborne-beer-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/airborne-beer-436x333.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/airborne-beer.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82863\">Private Vince Speranza<\/a> several years back, and his cheeky brand of &#8220;aid and comfort to the wounded&#8221; during the 101st&#8217;s legendary stand during the Battle of the Bulge. The above pictured beer was made by the locals decades later in his honor. Unfortunately, word came in yesterday that he&#8217;d passed away at the tender age of 98.<\/p>\n<p>He jumped out of an airplane as recently as last March! Airborne lead the way!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2023\/08\/03\/wwii-paratrooper-famous-for-bringing-beer-to-wounded-troops-dies-at-98\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=army-dnr\">Army Times has more on Speranza.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Private Vince Speranza several years back, and his cheeky brand of &#8220;aid and &hellip; <a title=\"Belgian Beer Bearing Battered Bastard of Bastogne dies, age 98\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145297\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belgian Beer Bearing Battered Bastard of Bastogne dies, age 98<\/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":[359,130,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-real-soldiers","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145297","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=145297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}