{"id":65624,"date":"2016-05-06T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65624"},"modified":"2016-05-06T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T12:38:36","slug":"frank-levingston-us-oldest-wwii-vet-passes-at-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65624","title":{"rendered":"Frank Levingston, US&#8217; oldest WWII vet passes at 110"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65625\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65625\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Frank-Levingston-300x208.png\" alt=\"Frank Levingston\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Frank-Levingston-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Frank-Levingston.png 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>UpNorth sends us the sad news that Frank Levingston, believed to be the oldest World War II veteran has passed at the tender age of 110. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/oldest-us-world-war-ii-vet-passes-110\/story?id=38897993\">ABC News<\/a>, he enlisted in October, 1942;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;He felt the obligation to give to the country whatever he possibly could, and he was very excited about it,&#8221; Jee Levingston, Frank&#8217;s nephew, told ABC News today. &#8220;He gave it his very best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Levingston told ABC News that his uncle was born on Nov. 13, 1905, in Cotton Valley, Louisiana, and that both of Frank&#8217;s parents died when Frank was very young.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the backbone of this family,&#8221; Levingston said. &#8220;He never married, had no children, but he took great pride in taking care of his sister&#8217;s and brother&#8217;s children. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Levingston\">Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He served as a private during the war in the Allied invasion of Italy which lasted from September 1943 to January 1944. After receiving an honorable discharge in 1945, he became a union worker specializing in cement finishing. Levingston never married. On August 16, 2015, he became the oldest recognized living military veteran in United States, following the death of Emma Didlake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UpNorth sends us the sad news that Frank Levingston, believed to be the oldest World War &hellip; <a title=\"Frank Levingston, US&#8217; oldest WWII vet passes at 110\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65624\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank Levingston, US&#8217; oldest WWII vet passes at 110<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65624","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\/65624","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=65624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}