{"id":61451,"date":"2015-08-18T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61451"},"modified":"2015-08-18T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:19:11","slug":"emma-didlake-oldest-veteran-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61451","title":{"rendered":"Emma Didlake; oldest veteran passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61452\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Emma-Didlake-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Didlake\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Emma-Didlake-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Emma-Didlake-326x333.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Emma-Didlake.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/americas-oldest-known-veteran-emma-didlake-dies-at-110\/ar-BBlOkyB?srcref=rss\">MSN<\/a> comes the sad, but not unexpected news that Emma Didlake, who was feted at the White House last month for being the oldest living veteran passed on Sunday. She was 110-years-old. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the deaths of Coffey and Didlake, the oldest known veteran of the war is Richard Overton, a Bastrop County native. He was born three days before Coffey in May 1906.<\/p>\n<p>Like Didlake, he, too, is black. Both stepped into roles that had been reserved for white men in a highly segregated society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know I was breaking barriers,\u201d said Didlake, who turned 110 on March 13 and received more than 250 birthday cards. \u201cBut I enjoyed doing what I was doing because I had committed myself to do just this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/110-year-old-veteran-emma-didlake-honored-president-obama\">MSNBC<\/a> article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Didlake was born in Boligee, Alabama in 1905. She was a 38-year-old wife and mother of five when she joined the Women\u2019s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Making the decision to join the army was a bold move for the veteran from the segregated south, during a period where many women remained at home. During her service, she held the rank of Private and served for seven months stateside as a driver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MSN comes the sad, but not unexpected news that Emma Didlake, who was feted at &hellip; <a title=\"Emma Didlake; oldest veteran passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61451\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emma Didlake; oldest veteran passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61451","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=61451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}