{"id":81124,"date":"2024-03-20T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/news\/un-veteran-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-et-pompier-a-la-retraite-de-somerville-celebre-son-100e-anniversaire\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:54:43","slug":"un-veteran-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-et-pompier-a-la-retraite-de-somerville-celebre-son-100e-anniversaire","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/news\/un-veteran-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-et-pompier-a-la-retraite-de-somerville-celebre-son-100e-anniversaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Un v\u00e9t\u00e9ran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et pompier \u00e0 la retraite de Somerville c\u00e9l\u00e8bre son 100e anniversaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<section\n\t class=\"page-blocks iaff-page-blocks align wp-block-acf-page-blocks\" id=\"page-blocks_block_c7c9d98786d9755feca128faa2c89d5f\">\n\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>Le pompier \u00e0 la retraite William Griffiths, un ancien combattant distingu\u00e9 de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et du service d\u2019incendie de Somerville, a c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/retired-somerville-firefighter-celebrates-100th-birthday\/P4DLU7JZPJC25ASHFQWIG7A3QI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">une \u00e9tape remarquable<\/a> le 20 f\u00e9vrier, lors de son 100e anniversaire de naissance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>\u00ab Le pompier Griffiths incarne le service et l\u2019altruisme pour lesquelles la plus grande g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d\u2019Am\u00e9rique est r\u00e9put\u00e9e \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 jay Colbert, vice-pr\u00e9sident du <sup>3e<\/sup> district. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>N\u00e9 en 1924, le voyage de service de Griffiths a commenc\u00e9 lorsqu\u2019il s\u2019est enr\u00f4l\u00e9 dans le Corps des Marines des \u00c9tats-Unis le 23 janvier 1942, r\u00e9pondant \u00e0 l\u2019appel du devoir pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Au cours de sa brillante carri\u00e8re militaire, Griffiths a atteint le grade de caporal et a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs batailles majeures de la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/pacific-strategy-1941-1944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campagne du Pacifique<\/a>, y compris la baie d\u2019Oro en Nouvelle-Guin\u00e9e, le cap Gloucester en Nouvelle-Bretagne et Peleliu dans les \u00eeles Palau. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 bless\u00e9 \u00e0 Okinawa dans les \u00eeles Ryuku.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>Apr\u00e8s sa lib\u00e9ration le 22 novembre 1946, apr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s de cinq ans de service, Griffiths est retourn\u00e9 \u00e0 Somerville, Massachusetts, o\u00f9 il a continu\u00e9 son service en se joignant au service d\u2019incendie de Somerville. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>Apr\u00e8s 32 ans de service, Griffiths a pris sa retraite en juin 1981. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">\n<p>Alors que sa famille, ses amis et les membres de la section locale 76 de Somerville, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/somfdlocal76\/status\/1761566526535073802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">c\u00e9l\u00e9braient<\/a> un si\u00e8cle rempli d\u2019exp\u00e9riences et de souvenirs, sa vie est un rappel poignant des sacrifices consentis par ceux qui se sont d\u00e9vou\u00e9s au service des autres. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Son d\u00e9vouement envers sa famille, le Corps des Marines et le service d\u2019incendie de Somerville est un h\u00e9ritage remarquable qui m\u00e9rite certainement cette reconnaissance. <\/p><cite>Jay Colbert, vice-pr\u00e9sident du 3e district<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":69538,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81124","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaff.org\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}