{"id":582,"date":"2014-11-11T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:03","slug":"dad-was-a-wwii-hero-mine-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/about-family-friends-students\/dad-was-a-wwii-hero-mine-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad was a WWII Hero &#038; Mine, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P-51D_Tika_IV_361st_fg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-583 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P-51D_Tika_IV_361st_fg-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"P-51D_Tika_IV_361st_fg\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>My father was a WWII flying ace. He flew P-51 Mustangs, he taught cadets to fly them, as well. He wound up having to ditch in the North Sea three times. He lost friends, comrades, and &#8220;wings&#8221; (wingmates) in that war. \u00a0(He flew in the European theatre, flying out of Britain.) \u00a0I know he was in the bombing of Dresden as air cover, and I know it was one of his worst nightmares of the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He never spoke much about World War II. \u00a0But he did share some of his pranks and escapades&#8230;like flying a P-51 upside down through an open hanger and having everyone hit the deck. The tower couldn&#8217;t believe he did it. \u00a0But he did. \u00a0And got away with it, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, I miss him. A lot. I miss him so much that I can&#8217;t even coherently write about him, but he was MY hero, and always will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father was a WWII flying ace. He flew P-51 Mustangs, he taught cadets to fly them, as well. He wound up having to ditch in the North Sea three times. He lost friends, comrades, and &#8220;wings&#8221; (wingmates) in that war. \u00a0(He flew in the European theatre, flying out of Britain.) \u00a0I know he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,134,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}