{"id":6266,"date":"2017-01-20T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2017-01-20T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:13:23","slug":"frazier-glenn-dowling-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6266","title":{"rendered":"FRAZIER, GLENN DOWLING, 1923-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soldier; businessman; motivational speaker.\u00a0 Born December 1, 1924, Fort Deposit, Lowndes County.\u00a0 Parents:\u00a0 John Herman and Glennie Gafford Frazier.\u00a0 Married; children&#8211;two. Education: attended\u00a0Meadows-Draughn Business College and Elmer Wheeler Sales Institute. \u00a0Volunteered for the U.S. Army, 1941; captured after the Battle of Bataan in 1942and\u00a0spent three and a half years in Japanese prison camps.\u00a0 Discharged in 1945.\u00a0 Owned a trucking business in Shreveport, La.; National Sales Manager for Howard Van Lines and later worked for Greyhound Car Rental and several other firms around the country. Featured in the PBS series &#8220;The War,&#8221; directed by Ken Burns.\u00a0 Lecturer and motivational speaker.\u00a0 Awarded the Medal of Freedom, the Bronze Star, and four Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hell&#8217;s Guest; pbs website; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hell&#8217;s Guest.\u00a0 Williams and Company, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Soldier; businessman; motivational speaker.\u00a0 Born December 1, 1924, Fort Deposit, Lowndes County.\u00a0 Parents:\u00a0 John Herman and Glennie Gafford Frazier.\u00a0 Married; children&#8211;two. Education: attended\u00a0Meadows-Draughn Business College and Elmer Wheeler Sales Institute. \u00a0Volunteered for the U.S. Army, 1941; captured after the Battle of Bataan in 1942and\u00a0spent three and a half years in Japanese prison camps.\u00a0 Discharged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}