{"id":23443,"date":"2016-11-05T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2016-11-05T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T22:48:16","slug":"veteran-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/veteran-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Vet, 93, Helps Other Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sidhalbu.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Random acts of kindness for military veterans,\u00a0even a smile and simple, &#8220;Thank You,&#8221; go a long way in making their sacrifices feel appreciated. One California vet in particular, 93-year-young Sid Halburn, knows how small gestures help others.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/veterans-day.html\">A Veterans Story <\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Halburn volunteers every week at the VA Hospital in Long Beach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He helps on their farm.<\/li>\n<li>He cheers lonely vets who have no one coming to see them.<\/li>\n<li>Sid uses his own money\u00a0to buy combs, writing paper, pens, candy and other items to give to vets who have no one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0former World War II soldier joined the Army 75 years ago when he was 18. An injury prohibited Halburn from completing his mission as part of an elite\u00a0group of specially-trained soldiers &#8212; all members of his unit were killed!\u00a0Approx. 3% of the world population (75 million) lost their lives in the deadliest war ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We owe so much to so many, who made the ultimate sacrifice,&#8221; said Sid, who spends much of his time helping other veterans.\u00a0&#8220;I want them to know they aren&#8217;t alone, they&#8217;re not forgotten and we care very much for them and the sacrifices they&#8217;ve made for our freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random acts of kindness for military veterans,\u00a0even a smile and simple, &#8220;Thank You,&#8221; go a long way in making their sacrifices feel appreciated. One California vet in particular, 93-year-young Sid Halburn, knows how small gestures help others. A Veterans Story Halburn volunteers every week at the VA Hospital in Long Beach: He helps on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}