{"id":57892,"date":"2015-01-28T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57892"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:17:25","slug":"pvt-arthur-bud-kelder-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57892","title":{"rendered":"Pvt. Arthur &#8220;Bud&#8221; Kelder comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57893\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kelder-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"kelder\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kelder-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kelder-319x333.jpg 319w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kelder.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After 72 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/after-7-decades-remains-of-wwii-gi-could-soon-be-coming-home\/\">Private Arthur H. Kelder<\/a> will join his relatives in a family plot near Chicago. Kelder was one of the American troops captured in the Philippines and endured the grueling Bataan Death March. Kelder survived the march, but succumbed to illness and was buried in a common grave with thirteen other prisoners near the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in Luzon. His remains have finally been identified and they&#8217;re awaiting acceptance from his surviving family;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Joint POW\/MIA Accounting Command&#8217;s Central Identification Laboratory (JPACCIL) has identified the remains of Private Arthur H. Kelder from the remains associated with Cabanatuan Common Grave 717 that were disinterred from the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.<br \/>\n2. On January 22, 2015, Douglas Kelder, the Primary Next-of-Kin of PVT Kelder, was notified of the identification by telephone by William E. Cox, Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Operations Center, U.S. Army Human Resources Command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 72 years, Private Arthur H. Kelder will join his relatives in a family plot near &hellip; <a title=\"Pvt. Arthur &#8220;Bud&#8221; Kelder comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57892\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pvt. Arthur &#8220;Bud&#8221; Kelder comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892","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=57892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}