{"id":3268,"date":"2020-01-09T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:01:09","slug":"book-club-wed-feb-12th-at-345pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/2020\/01\/09\/book-club-wed-feb-12th-at-345pm\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK CLUB WED FEB 12TH AT 3:45PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">ADULT BOOK CLUB<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Wednesday, February 12, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">3:45pm to 4:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong><em>All the Gallant Men: The First Memoir by a USS Arizona Survivor by <\/em>Donald Stratton <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">The Nebraska Library Commission has chosen this book as the 2020 One Book One Nebraska Winner!!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"368\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/files\/2020\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/files\/2020\/01\/image.png 276w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/files\/2020\/01\/image-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno.  A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan\u2019s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor.  Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel.  Forty-five feet below, the harbor\u2019s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this extraordinary never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack\u2014the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona\u2014ninety-five-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight.  Stratton would sail back to the Pacific War in 1944, where he would participate in the invasion of Okinawa and other major battles.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADULT BOOK CLUB Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:45pm to 4:30pm All the Gallant Men: The First Memoir by a USS Arizona Survivor by Donald Stratton The Nebraska Library Commission has chosen this book as the 2020 One Book One Nebraska Winner!! At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/2020\/01\/09\/book-club-wed-feb-12th-at-345pm\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-book-club"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}