{"id":88556,"date":"2019-07-02T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88556"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:24:36","slug":"wwii-pilot-gets-his-hs-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88556","title":{"rendered":"WWII Pilot Gets His HS Diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This gentleman, James Shipley, was a member of the well-known World War II aviation group known as the Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/07\/02\/tuskegee-airman-receives-diploma-80-years-after-high-school\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 Military historian Jeremy Amick says Shipley didn’t have a chance to earn his diploma years ago. He attended an all-black high school that wasn’t credentialed through 12th grade. Shipley would have had to travel to Sedalia for his final year, and he didn’t have the resources to do so.<\/p>\n

He had not yet finished high school when he went into the Army, and went to war. I can only say BZ to his drive to complete his mission. He is now a high school graduate, and we should all be proud of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This gentleman, James Shipley, was a member of the well-known World War II aviation group known as the Tuskegee Airmen. https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/07\/02\/tuskegee-airman-receives-diploma-80-years-after-high-school\/ From the article:\u00a0 Military historian Jeremy Amick says Shipley didn’t have a chance to earn his diploma years ago. He attended an all-black high school that wasn’t credentialed through 12th grade. Shipley would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,218,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disposable-warriors","category-feel-good-stories","category-historical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-n2k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88556","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}