{"id":37291,"date":"2013-08-28T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37291"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:19:07","slug":"jerry-smith-100-year-old-seabee-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37291","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Smith, 100 year-old Seabee honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seabee-300x225.png\" alt=\"Seabee\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seabee-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seabee.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Will sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/m.wral.com\/w\/localnews\/story\/98536144\/#\">WRAL<\/a>which reports that Jerry Smith of Durham, NC was honored as one of the original Seabees, and they used the occasion to also mark his 100th birthday yesterday at the governor&#8217;s mansion in Raleigh;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smith is a &#8220;plank owner&#8221; in the First Naval Construction Battalion &#8211; members of which are called Seabees &#8211; which was commissioned on March 15, 1942. He served in the Navy from January 1942 to September 1945.<\/p>\n<p>A Navy plank owner is an individual who was a member of the crew when the ship or command was placed in commission. His battalion is credited with completing construction projects during the war, risking their lives to build hospitals and airfields.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something we did because it had to be done,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;Other jobs I could leave. I couldn&#8217;t leave the Seabees, and I&#8217;m glad I was in the Seabees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will sends us a link to WRALwhich reports that Jerry Smith of Durham, NC was honored &hellip; <a title=\"Jerry Smith, 100 year-old Seabee honored\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37291\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry Smith, 100 year-old Seabee honored<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}