{"id":38161,"date":"2013-10-28T05:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38161"},"modified":"2013-10-28T05:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T09:31:30","slug":"wwii-vethot-tamale-king-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38161","title":{"rendered":"WWII Vet\/Hot Tamale King murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/10\/27\/four-teens-arrested-in-murder-world-war-ii-veteran\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Lawrence \u201cShine\u201d Thornton, the crowned &#8220;Hot Tamale King&#8221; of Greenville, MS and a World War II Navy veteran was murdered in his driveway by four teens;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greenville Assistant Police Chief Andrew Kaho told the Delta Democrat Times that Terrance Morgan, 19; Edward Johnson, 19; Leslie Litt, 18; and Geblonski Murray, 18; were all arrested Monday, and charged with capital murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.<\/p>\n<p>And although little is known about the specifics of the run-in that cost Thornton his life, much has reportedly been said about the apparently momentous loss to the delta community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mortimer Funeral Home of Greenville says this about his Navy career;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was a veteran of World War II where he served in the Pacific Theater for two years as a Fireman First Class aboard the minesweeper, the USS Herald.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Herald_%28AM-101%29\">Wiki<\/a> tells story of the the wartime history of the USS Herald (AM-101) which we can assume included &#8220;Shine&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Herald got underway on 16 May 1943 for Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where she took part in patrols and was present for the unopposed landing on Kiska Island on 15 August. The ship resumed her patrol and escort duties; but, after suffering severe damage in a storm on 6 November 1943 returned to Seattle, Washington on 10 December for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The minesweeper returned to duty on 12 February 1944, sailing to Pearl Harbor on the 22nd. After two convoy voyages to the Marshalls, she got underway on 30 May to join the fleet at Eniwetok for one of the most important amphibious operations of the war, the invasion of the Marianas. Herald arrived off Saipan on D-day, 15 June, and performed minesweeping and escort duties. While the U.S. fleet won a great victory at the Battle of the Philippine Sea 19 to 21 June, the minesweeper protected the transport and fueling areas off Saipan. She sailed to Tarawa on 17 July to escort a group of LST&#8217;s back to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived 26 July.<\/p>\n<p>In the months that followed, Herald performed vital convoy work in the Marshalls and Marianas, including patrol and some minesweeping work. In early 1945 she served as an escort ship for submarines returning to Ulithi from war patrols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The USS Herald earned two battle stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Lawrence \u201cShine\u201d Thornton, the crowned &#8220;Hot Tamale King&#8221; of Greenville, MS and &hellip; <a title=\"WWII Vet\/Hot Tamale King murdered\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38161\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWII Vet\/Hot Tamale King murdered<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38161","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=38161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}