{"id":50971,"date":"2014-06-14T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50971"},"modified":"2014-06-14T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:02:16","slug":"va-helps-vet-celebrate-101st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50971","title":{"rendered":"VA helps vet celebrate 101st birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.your4state.com\/story\/d\/story\/army-veteran-celebrates-101st-birthday\/36329\/4OTZCVP5iUyGRCgm4u526g\">Your4State<\/a> tells the story of Alfred Clark who celebrated his 101st birthday yesterday at the Martinsburg, West Virginia Veterans Affairs hospital;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I picked him up to bring him here for two appointments,&#8221; said Clark&#8217;s daughter Gwen Troxell. &#8220;We knew they were going to have cake, but we didn&#8217;t think (it would be) anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am surprised!&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;This is great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark served in the army during World War Two from 1943-1946. Members at the hospital have been planning a surprise party for him since his 100th birthday a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every three months, &#8216;are you having my birthday?'&#8221; said Terri Flowers, a Health Technician at the medical center. &#8220;So we had to schedule his appointment on his birthday so we could honor his 101st birthday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?aspect_ratio=3x2&#038;auto_start=0&#038;pf_id=12141&#038;rel=3&#038;show_title=0&#038;va_id=5170869&#038;volume=8&#038;windows=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are good VA systems, and Martinsburg is one of them. I&#8217;m in the Martinsburg system, so i speak with a measure of authority. But, Happy Birthday, Mr. Clark. Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your4State tells the story of Alfred Clark who celebrated his 101st birthday yesterday at the Martinsburg, &hellip; <a title=\"VA helps vet celebrate 101st birthday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50971\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA helps vet celebrate 101st birthday<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50971","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=50971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}