{"id":369,"date":"2015-08-21T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=369"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:01","slug":"last-wwii-mission-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/last-wwii-mission-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Last WWII Mission Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man with an amazing past, an amazing memory and he can still wear his WWII uniform!<\/p>\n<p>Take five minutes to watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/395572\/jerry-yellin-world-war-ii-veteran-interview#.VdOn57JVhBc\">video interview<\/a> &#8212; and listen carefully to what he says and how he says it.\u00a0 I promise you, you won&#8217;t regret a second of it.<br \/>\nAsk yourself, how many of the few surviving WWII veterans kept themselves and their uniform in such good condition for over 70 years and can still proudly wear it?<br \/>\nNotice his superb\u00a0 delivery, no teleprompter, no script\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 just a 91-year-old fighter-pilot representing the greatest generation at home and abroad who won WWII.\u00a0 He has some surprises and a great take on the philosophy of life.<br \/>\nThis is why we do what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man with an amazing past, an amazing memory and he can still wear his WWII uniform! Take five minutes to watch this video interview &#8212; and listen carefully to what he says and how he says it.\u00a0 I promise you, you won&#8217;t regret a second of it. Ask yourself, how many of the few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/last-wwii-mission-pilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last WWII Mission Pilot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}