{"id":2121,"date":"2023-08-10T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:53:23","slug":"the-life-sacrifice-of-sgt-ralph-dewitt-u-s-army-air-corp","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"The Life &amp; Sacrifice of Sgt. Ralph DeWitt, U.S. Army Air Corp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday, August 29th                     7:00 P.M.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join Post Historian Scott Bicksler from the Jerry Wickam American Legion Post IL-1148 as he shares the life and sacrifice of local WWII hero and POW, Sgt. Ralph DeWitt, U.S. Army Air Corps. This presentation will be held at Bertolet Memorial Library, 705 Main St, Leaf River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ralph-DeWitt-event-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 29th 7:00 P.M. Join Post Historian Scott Bicksler from the Jerry Wickam American Legion Post IL-1148 as he shares the life and sacrifice of local WWII hero and POW, Sgt. Ralph DeWitt, U.S. Army Air Corps. This presentation will be held at Bertolet Memorial Library, 705 Main St, Leaf River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[165,164,167,166],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","category-adult-programming","category-calendar-of-events","tag-american-legion","tag-history","tag-wwii-hero","tag-wwii-pow","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}