{"id":77405,"date":"2018-01-28T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77405"},"modified":"2018-01-28T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T12:21:18","slug":"mort-walker-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77405","title":{"rendered":"Mort Walker passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=77406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77406\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today we get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/01\/27\/mort-walker-creator-long-running-beetle-bailey-cartoon-dies-at-94-family-says.html\">the sad news<\/a> that Mort Walker, the creator of the iconic Beetle Bailey comic strip has passed at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=77407\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77407\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker-2-500x281.jpg?resize=500%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker-2.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker-2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker-2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Like most of his generation, he was a veteran, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mort_Walker\">Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1943, Walker was drafted into the United States Army and served in Italy, where he was an intelligence and investigating officer and was also in charge of an Allied camp for 10,000 German POWs. After the war he was posted to Italy where he was in charge of an Italian guard company. He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1947.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLMtp12mmEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we get the sad news that Mort Walker, the creator of the iconic Beetle Bailey comic strip has passed at the age of 94. Like most of his generation, he was a veteran, according to Wiki; In 1943, Walker was drafted into the United States Army and served in Italy, where he was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mort-walker.jpg?fit=480%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-k8t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}