{"id":83778,"date":"2018-12-28T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83778"},"modified":"2018-12-28T03:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:27:28","slug":"nations-oldest-military-veteran-dead-at-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83778","title":{"rendered":"Nation\u2019s oldest military veteran dead at 112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Richard-Overton-e1545980348585.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Overton\" \/>America\u2019s oldest veteran, Richard Overton \u2014 credited God, whiskey and cigars for his longevity \u2014 died Thursday in Texas at the age of 112. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)<br \/>\nBy Frank Miles | Fox News<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America\u2019s oldest veteran, Richard Overton, who served in the Army during World War II, died Thursday in Texas at the age of 112, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>He had been hospitalized for the last week with pneumonia, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Overton, whose husband was Richard\u2019s cousin, said the vet died Thursday evening at a rehab facility in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Overton, who was also thought to be the oldest living American, was born in 1906 in Bastrop County, just outside Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Overton was in his 30s when he volunteered for the Army, and was at Pearl Harbor just after the Japanese surprise attack in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>The WWII veteran served in the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion from 1942 to 1945, a period that included stops in Angaur, Palau; Peleliu, Micronesia; and Iwo Jima, Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mr.-overton-e1545981733555.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Overton M1\" \/>Let&#8217;s take a moment to thank and celebrate the life of Richard Overton the nation&#8217;s oldest living veteran whose passed away this evening at age 112.<br \/>\nThank you for your service, sir.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas, Mr. Overton. I&#8217;ll hoist a glass and have a cigar in your honor. The rest of the article may be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nations-oldest-military-veteran-dead-at-112\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s oldest veteran, Richard Overton \u2014 credited God, whiskey and cigars for his longevity \u2014 died &hellip; <a title=\"Nation\u2019s oldest military veteran dead at 112\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83778\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nation\u2019s oldest military veteran dead at 112<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,130,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-real-soldiers","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}