{"id":78768,"date":"2018-04-08T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78768"},"modified":"2018-04-08T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:48:15","slug":"a-couple-of-wwii-vets-have-left-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78768","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of WWII Vets Have Left Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Daniel Akaka, a WWII veteran, passed away on Friday at the age of 93.\u00a0 He was the sponsor for federal legislation in 1996 that resulted in the Medal of Honor being awarded to 22 Asia-American soldiers who fought\u00a0 for the USA during World War II. One of them included Sen. Daniel Inouye, who served with the 442<sup>nd<\/sup> Regimental Combat Team in Italy and was severely wounded during that service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/daniel-k-akaka-hawaii-senator-with-spirit-of-aloha-dies-at-93\/2018\/04\/06\/c732d81a-39cc-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/daniel-k-akaka-hawaii-senator-with-spirit-of-aloha-dies-at-93\/2018\/04\/06\/c732d81a-39cc-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, after being missing for 73 years, the remains of Aviation Ordinanceman 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Class (AO2) Ora Sharninghouse, Jr. were identified and he was laid to rest next to his parents in Wood County, Ohio. He was a member of\u00a0 the Navy\u2019s VT-18 (Torpedo Squadron). There\u2019s a nice photo of him in the Stars &amp; Stripes article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/identification-of-wwii-gunner-s-remains-leads-to-funeral-after-73-years-1.520904\">https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/identification-of-wwii-gunner-s-remains-leads-to-funeral-after-73-years-1.520904<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His plane crashed at Palau. A radioman\u2019s remains were also found with him.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the news:\u00a0Winnie Mandela passed on April 2. I\u2019m sure there are people looking forward to seeing her again. Just thought you\u2019d like to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Daniel Akaka, a WWII veteran, passed away on Friday at the age of 93.\u00a0 He &hellip; <a title=\"A Couple of WWII Vets Have Left Us\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78768\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Couple of WWII Vets Have Left Us<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78768","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}