{"id":28990,"date":"2017-04-20T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/23\/touching-tweet-your-grandfathers-wwii-stories-in-honor-of-delbert-belton\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:45:50","slug":"touching-tweet-your-grandfathers-wwii-stories-in-honor-of-delbert-belton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/28990","title":{"rendered":"Touching: ‘Tweet your grandfather’s WWII stories’ in honor of Delbert&nbsp;Belton"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Cameron_Gray\/status\/370770744751714304\n<p>As Twitchy has previously <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/22\/world-war-ii-veteran-assaulted-by-teens-in-random-attack-dies\/\">reported<\/a>, two teens assaulted 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert Belton in North Spokane, Wash., Belton later died from his injuries. Memorials and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/22\/james-woods-leads-call-for-justice-for-slain-world-war-ii-vet-delbert-belton\/\">calls for justice<\/a> poured in, and as of right now one <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/22\/world-war-ii-veteran-assaulted-by-teens-in-random-attack-dies\/\">arrest has been made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Mr. Belton (who was wounded on Okinawa) and his service, the hashtag #TweetYourGrandfathersWWIIStories was started. The result has been many moving reminders of heroism cloaked in humility via short stories about those who helped save the world:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FreedomUS\/status\/370943904624812032\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/atomiktiger\/status\/370953312511602688\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottHuheey\/status\/370939579597324288\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mommasaurus009\/status\/370937941796737025\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MDMRN\/status\/370937779376906240\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/theMrsMJT\/status\/370936904348233728\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AsherTheAllMan\/status\/370935708053012480\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MJGossman\/status\/370935481212489728\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ED_R_1976\/status\/370935209115783169\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/vbspurs\/status\/370934384947625984\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Kari_in_Kansas\/status\/370931461223755776\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RayMooch\/status\/370926647517925377\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/darelf\/status\/370941395479330817\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FightingSwiss\/status\/370877855464308738\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tmarsh83\/status\/370877398612709376\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ED_R_1976\/status\/370935209115783169\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ED_R_1976\/status\/370935337859956736\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TweetYourGrandfathersWWIIStories\" title=\"#TweetYourGrandfathersWWIIStories\">#TweetYourGrandfathersWWIIStories<\/a>\nI&#039;ll never fill these shoes.\nHis SECOND big war. And some smaller ones. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/RJumI79k0V\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/RJumI79k0V<\/a>&mdash; Mike St James (@MCTStJames) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MCTStJames\/status\/370934377447841795'>August 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/psjohnson23\/status\/370933216342835200\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DA_Shue\/status\/370780833734332416\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/firewall03\/status\/370775938817990657\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AGM100TUC\/status\/370771404158812160\n<p>There are so many and we wish we had room for every one of them. You can see all of them <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TweetYourGrandfathersWWIIStories&amp;src=typd&amp;mode=realtime\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/23\/touching-tweet-your-grandfathers-wwii-stories-in-honor-of-delbert-belton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/23\/touching-tweet-your-grandfathers-wwii-stories-in-honor-of-delbert-belton\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Cameron_Gray\/status\/370770744751714304 As Twitchy has previously reported, two teens assaulted 88-year-old World War II veteran Delbert Belton in North Spokane, Wash., Belton later died from his injuries. Memorials and calls for justice poured in, and as of right now one arrest has been made. In honor of Mr. Belton (who was wounded on Okinawa) and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/28990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Touching: ‘Tweet your grandfather’s WWII stories’ in honor of Delbert&nbsp;Belton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14926599541083-delbert-belton.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}