{"id":65678,"date":"2016-05-09T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65678"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:47:06","slug":"lou-tirado-gets-back-on-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65678","title":{"rendered":"Lou Tirado gets back on the horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lou-Tirado-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"Lou Tirado\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lou-Tirado-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lou-Tirado-348x333.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lou-Tirado.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/ktla.com\/2016\/05\/04\/o-c-wwii-veteran-95-rides-in-b-17-for-1st-time-since-being-shot-down-over-germany\/\">KTLA<\/a>, 95-year-old Lou Tirado last flew on a B-17 when it was shot down over Germany while he was a ball-turret gunner and he became a prisoner of war for eight months. The pilot and tailgunner didn&#8217;t make it, but Tirado and six others parachuted from the aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>Some of his friends took up the money for his flight;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. I still don\u2019t believe it,\u201d Tirado said. \u201cThe last time I was in a B-17 was the day we got shot down \u2026 72 years in September.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tirado got choked up as he spoke about the two crew members who died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey deserve a lot more than this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tirado, who now lives in Laguna Woods, was able to get into the plane&#8217;s ball turret to take a look at the cramped seat in which he traveled into combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to KTLA, 95-year-old Lou Tirado last flew on a B-17 when it was shot down &hellip; <a title=\"Lou Tirado gets back on the horse\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65678\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lou Tirado gets back on the horse<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65678","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=65678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}