{"id":67777,"date":"2016-09-04T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67777"},"modified":"2016-09-04T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T13:28:16","slug":"dabney-montgomery-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67777","title":{"rendered":"Dabney Montgomery passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dabney-Montgomery-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dabney Montgomery\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dabney-Montgomery-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dabney-Montgomery-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dabney-Montgomery.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tom L. sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/09\/03\/tuskegee-airman-who-marched-with-mlk-from-selma-dies-at-93.html\">a link to the sad news<\/a> that Dabney Montgomery, a ground crew member of the Tuskegee Airmen fighter squadron has passed at the tender age of 93.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His wife, Amelia Montgomery, said he died of natural causes Saturday morning at a Manhattan hospice care facility. He had lived in Harlem until he entered the facility Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery was born in in Selma, Alabama, in 1923 and was inducted into the armed forces in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery remained active until his final weeks, frequently visiting schools to talk to children about his experiences growing up in Alabama, serving in the war and marching for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just loved motivating young people to be somebody,&#8221; Amelia Montgomery said. &#8220;That was his joy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom L. sends us a link to the sad news that Dabney Montgomery, a ground crew &hellip; <a title=\"Dabney Montgomery passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67777\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dabney Montgomery passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67777","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=67777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}