Spence Simon is a proud Vietnam Veteran.<\/p>\n
A Graduate of Academy High School, he served during the TET Offensive.<\/p>\n
TET, was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
Simon was drafted by the U.S. Army out of high school, but his tour of duty quickly changed.<\/p>\n
When Simon entered the military, he didn\u2019t know he was color blind.<\/p>\n
That led him to the Navy and serving injured infantry soldiers.<\/p>\n
Those soldiers hold Medics in high regard.<\/p>\n
The Simon family has a rich tradition of serving.<\/p>\n
Spencer\u2019s son and grandson have both experienced extended tours of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spence Simon is a proud Vietnam Veteran. A Graduate of Academy High School, he served during the TET…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4409,4420,4421,4410,4411,4425,4424,4427,4418,4419,4422,4429,4428,4408,4415,4417,4412,4416,4413,4426,4423,453,4414,4430],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-battles-and-operations-of-the-vietnam-war","tag-cold-war-conflicts","tag-conflicts","tag-guerrilla-wars","tag-imperialism","tag-indochina-wars","tag-military","tag-military-of-south-vietnam","tag-military-of-the-united-states","tag-military-of-vietnam","tag-military-operations","tag-military-operations-of-the-vietnam-war","tag-presidency-of-dwight-d-eisenhower","tag-presidency-of-gerald-ford","tag-presidency-of-john-f-kennedy","tag-presidency-of-lyndon-b-johnson","tag-presidency-of-richard-nixon","tag-proxy-wars","tag-revolution-based-civil-wars","tag-vietnam-war","tag-vietnamese-independence-movement","tag-war","tag-warfare","tag-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}