{"id":1096942,"date":"2021-12-08T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096942"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:44:06","slug":"wwii-veteran-heads-to-pearl-harbor-to-search-for-neighbors-grave-on-80th-anniversary-of-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wwii-veteran-heads-to-pearl-harbor-to-search-for-neighbors-grave-on-80th-anniversary-of-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Veteran Heads to Pearl Harbor to Search for Neighbor&#039;s Grave on 80th Anniversary of Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwwii-veteran-heads-to-pearl-harbor-to-search-for-neighbors-grave-on-80th-anniversary-of-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-500341764-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ninety-four-year-old World War II Navy Veteran James Golding is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/94-year-old-wwii-veteran-pearl-harbor-80th-anniversary-attack-search-friends-grave\/38430071\">traveling<\/a> to Oahu, Hawaii, to find the grave of his neighbor, who was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack 80 years ago Tuesday, KCRA reports.<\/p>\n<p>While in Oahu, Navy Seaman First Class James Golding will visit Pearl Harbor on Tuesday \u2013 the 80th anniversary of Japan\u2019s surprise attack on the naval base \u2013 to pay respect to the servicemembers who lost their lives during the air assault.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cPearl Harbor was the first time America was invaded essentially, it was just unquestionable, and it just, it shouldn\u2019t have been. I really wanted to go right then,\u201d Golding told KCRA.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/erinheftkcra\/posts\/337704251499523\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"27\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100057798529643\/posts\/337704251499523\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"10.028571428571\">\n<p>What an absolute honor it was today to chat with WWII veteran, James Golding.James, now 94-years old, told me it was\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/erinheftkcra\">Erin Heft KCRA<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100057798529643\/posts\/337704251499523\/\">Saturday, December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soon after the attack, then 14-year-old Golding learned his neighbor Roland \u201cRolly\u201d Wilson was killed during the Japanese offensive, KCRA reports. While the 94-year-old wanted to serve his country immediately after the events of December 7, 1941, he had to wait until he was of age.<\/p>\n<p>At 17, Golding enlisted in the Navy and was deployed to Panama \u201cwhere he was a tail gunner on a combat crew in a patrol bomber squadron,\u201d according to KCRA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Britannica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Panama\/Transcontinental-railroad-and-canal-projects\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.12380952381\">\n<p>After the Japanese attack on&nbsp;<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Pearl-Harbor\">Pearl Harbor<\/a>,&nbsp;<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Hawaii-state\">Hawaii<\/a>, on December 7, 1941, Panama transferred the defense sites to the United States, and tens of thousands of U.S. troops were stationed there to guarantee the security of the canal. While the waterway was never actually attacked,&nbsp;<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Japan\">Japan<\/a>&nbsp;had planned to do so, intending to use aircraft launched from submarines; however, the war ended before this effort could be mounted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Golding\u2019s plane searched for enemy submarines while on patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The 94-year-old never lost his love for flying and still takes to the skies on a weekly basis. He is also finishing construction of a homemade Osprey 2, which he refers to as the&nbsp;<span>\u201clast item on the bucket list,\u201d KCRA reports.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday, he heads out to Hawaii in search of Rolly\u2019s grave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe died in Pearl Harbor and I\u2019d like to find out [where Wilson is buried] really. I\u2019ve tried to find out online and never could,\u201d Golding told the outlet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> Golding will also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/perl\/learn\/historyculture\/national-pearl-harbor-remembrance-day.htm\">pay<\/a> tribute to the&nbsp;<\/span><span>2,403 servicemembers and civilians who were blindsided and killed during the Pearl Harbor attacks 80 years ago.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-four-year-old World War II Navy Veteran James Golding is traveling to Oahu, Hawaii, to find the grave of his neighbor, who was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack 80 years &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}