{"id":319203,"date":"2026-11-02T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319203\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:22:15","slug":"lower-merion-township-renames-street-for-ardmore-soldier-1st-lieutenant-paul-t-short-jr-killed-in-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319203\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion Township renames street for Ardmore soldier 1st Lieutenant Paul T. Short Jr. killed in Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Merion road renamed for Vietnam War soldier<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER MERION TWP., Pennsyvania (WPVI) &#8212; Lower Merion Township is honoring an Ardmore native who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The township&#8217;s Board of Commissioners renamed a portion of Chestnut Street after 1st Lieutenant Paul T. Short Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lt. Short attended Lower Merion High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His family, who still lives in Ardmore, was in attendance Wednesday night as the board read the proclamation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They designated a portion of the street as First Lieutenant Paul T. Short, Jr. Way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Township officials said while it was an honor for his family, it was also an historic event for the entire community.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lower Merion road renamed for Vietnam War soldier Thursday, February 20, 2020 Follow 6abc on Google LOWER MERION&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[129830,129826,129829,129828,129825,183,185,184,186,129827],"class_list":["post-319203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-129830","tag-ardmore-native","tag-chestnut-street-lower-merion","tag-killed-in-vietnam","tag-lieutenant-paul-t-short-jr","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-vietnam-war-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}