{"id":90034,"date":"2019-08-20T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90034"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:15:35","slug":"a-real-wartime-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90034","title":{"rendered":"A Real Wartime Hero…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I debated holding off on this until later in the fall, but the subject of this is 102 years old, had a stroke a while back that impeded him a little bit but didn’t stop him, and is as ornery as he was when he was much younger. He has never let the Old Man in.<\/p>\n

He is a stark contrast to that Other Person who claims to be something he is not.<\/p>\n

His next birthday is in November, when he’ll be 103 years old. He busted a hump to get through college, slept in a jail cell one night because he had no place else to go, and when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he interrupted his career to join the Navy as an officer on a subchaser PC1139.\u00a0 He was injured on deployment and had to leave the Navy, but he made several movies involving the Navy when the war was over and he had returned to acting.<\/p>\n

Kirk Douglas, born in 1916 as Issur Danielovitcfh, is currently age 102, served in the US Navy during World War II as a Gunnery and Communications officer on a submarine chaser PC-1139.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/navy.togetherweserved.com\/usn\/servlet\/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=468480<\/a><\/p>\n

There is the Veteran of the Day bio on him:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/57864\/veteranoftheday-navy-veteran-kirk-douglas\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ship\u2019s info and photo are here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.navsource.org\/archives\/12\/011139.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

While he did butt heads a lot, and not all of his movies were great successes, he never tried to claim that he did things he didn’t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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