{"id":148996,"date":"2026-03-01T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148996\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:17:06","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-94-year-old-war-hero-from-darien-sends-message-of-hope-amid-strikes-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148996\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 94-year-old war hero from Darien sends message of hope amid strikes in middle east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the strikes in the Middle East continuing a Connecticut war hero is sending a message of comfort to the families of U.S. service members deployed overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Wally McNulty is a 94-year-old highly decorated combat veteran from Darien.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 13 McNulty enlisted into the military bypassed the age restriction by using an alias.<\/p>\n<p>McNulty served in both the Korean War and World War II.<\/p>\n<p>His bravery didn\u2019t end when he returned home. In 1961, while working as a New York City bus driver, McNulty ran into a burning building and rescued 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>McNulty says he wants military families to know that warfare has changed dramatically since his day, doing a much better job of shielding boots on the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the strikes in the Middle East continuing a Connecticut war hero is sending a message of comfort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,47784,62446,62445,9,24,63,21145,21181,11937],"class_list":{"0":"post-148996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-darien","12":"tag-korea","13":"tag-korean-war","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-veteran","18":"tag-war","19":"tag-world-war-ii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}