{"id":38737,"date":"2013-12-05T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38737"},"modified":"2013-12-05T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:39:04","slug":"wwii-vet-bumped-he-made-the-plane-too-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38737","title":{"rendered":"WWII vet bumped; he made the plane too heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38739\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Schatz\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ewalt Shatz, a Pearl Harbor veteran was on his way to Hawai&#8217;i to take part in a ceremony on Saturday to commemorate events there 72 years ago. Well until United AIrlines bumped him from their flight because, well&#8230;you read it for yourself from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/24143676\/outrage-expressed-after-wwii-vet-allegedly-bumped-from-honolulu-bound-flight\">Hawaii News Now<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have received unconfirmed reports that despite telling employees that he was a veteran on his way to Hawaii for a memorial at the Arizona Memorial on December 7, a war veteran named Ewalt Shatz was bumped off of United Airlines flight 1226 from Los Angeles International Airport to Honolulu on Wednesday because the plane was overweight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fan, who wishes to remain nameless, has also confirmed this story for us. According to sources, the local military community got Mr. Schatz on a Hawaii Airlines flight and got him to the island on time.<\/p>\n<p>I guess United is getting beat up pretty bad on Facebook and Twitter. Good, they deserve it. Mr Schatz doesn&#8217;t look all that heavy in the picture above. <\/p>\n<p>This following picture was taken by our source to prove that he was there as part of the welcoming party that awaited Mr Schatz&#8217; arrvival;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38738\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-welcome-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Schatz welcome\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-welcome-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-welcome-446x333.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Schatz-welcome.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ewalt Shatz, a Pearl Harbor veteran was on his way to Hawai&#8217;i to take part in &hellip; <a title=\"WWII vet bumped; he made the plane too heavy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWII vet bumped; he made the plane too heavy<\/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":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737","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=38737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}