{"id":121799,"date":"2023-07-04T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121799"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:15:40","slug":"great-local-paper-story-for-july-4th-a-lost-marine-citadel-grad-and-world-war-veteran-sleuthing-has-finally-brought-him-home-after-nearly-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121799","title":{"rendered":"Great local paper story for July 4th&#8211;A lost Marine, Citadel grad and World War veteran. Sleuthing has finally brought him home after nearly 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her grandfather had been a mystery for as long as she could remember, his name an unanswered question, a frequent Google search.<\/p>\n<p>All Sandra Sharpe knew about him was what others had told her. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood man,\u201d they would say. \u201cFine soldier,\u201d many recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The rest was crumbs and brief glimpses of his life through out-of-place facts: He was a Marine and a general. He fought in World War I and II, and died suddenly of a heart attack in India during a round-the-world trip in 1965. <\/p>\n<p>For decades that was all she could really find \u2014 nothing about a gravesite or even what town.<\/p>\n<p>Until one day in 2012 when she discovered she wasn\u2019t the only one looking for him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/a-lost-marine-citadel-grad-and-world-war-veteran-sleuthing-has-finally-brought-him-home\/article_214366ac-1051-11ee-84e6-7b96f87e3df1.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The quest to find and bring home the remains of Maj. Gen. Harry K. Picket became an odyssey. A family looking for answers would join forces with a group of Citadel graduates determined to bring back one of their own. Soon it will reach its emotional end.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tpWrrxtFIW\">https:\/\/t.co\/tpWrrxtFIW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caitlin Byrd (@MaryCaitlinByrd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryCaitlinByrd\/status\/1676234694059253760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her grandfather had been a mystery for as long as she could remember, his name an unanswered question, a frequent Google search. All Sandra Sharpe knew about him was what others had told her. \u201cGood man,\u201d they would say. \u201cFine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121799\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,209,438,133,481,98,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-india","category-marriage-family","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121802,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121799\/revisions\/121802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}