{"id":86479,"date":"2019-05-20T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86479"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:44:16","slug":"funeral-for-ssgt-carl-m-shaffer-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86479","title":{"rendered":"Funeral for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer (World War II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86480\"><i>During February 2019<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer, US Army Air Forces.  (SSgt. Shaffer was accounted for by DPAA on 27 December 2018, but his name was apparently \u201cslipstreamed\u201d onto DPAA\u2019s Recently Accounted For listing on 25 February 2019.)  SSgt. Shaffer was lost on Tarawa on 21 January 1944.   <\/p>\n<p>SSgt. Shaffer will be buried later this week \u2013 on Saturday, 25 May 2019, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.  Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his funeral or interment.<\/p>\n<p>If any TAH readers have the precise location for either SSgt. Shaffer\u2019s funeral or interment, please post it in comments below.  And if any readers are in that area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During February 2019, DPAA announced that it had accounted for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer, US Army &hellip; <a title=\"Funeral for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer (World War II)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86479\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funeral for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer (World War II)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86479","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86481,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86479\/revisions\/86481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}