{"id":16318,"date":"2012-08-23T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:25:59","slug":"tuskegee-airman-george-hickman-dead-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16318","title":{"rendered":"Tuskegee Airman George Hickman Dead At 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 <strong>George Hickman<\/strong>, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks game, has died at age 88.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, <strong>Doris<\/strong>, confirmed Monday that he died early Sunday morning in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hickman<\/strong> was one of the country\u2019s first Black military pilots and ground crew members who fought in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he and other Tuskegee airmen traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor. In 2009, he attended <strong>President Barack Obama\u2018s<\/strong> inauguration as a special guest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hickman<\/strong> was a fixture at Seattle sporting events and greeted fans at Seahawks and Huskies games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doris Hickman<\/strong> says her husband was \u201cjust a wonderful man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks game, has died at age 88. His wife, Doris, confirmed Monday that he died early Sunday morning in Seattle. Hickman was one of the country\u2019s first Black military pilots and ground crew members who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}