{"id":695888,"date":"2026-01-22T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:37:14","slug":"patriots-surprise-massachusetts-oldest-wwii-veteran-on-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695888\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots surprise Massachusetts&#8217; oldest WWII veteran on birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe oldest living World War II veteran in Massachusetts received a special birthday surprise. Last month, volunteers at the Veterans Council in Beverly collected birthday cards for Louis Tanzer&#8217;s 105th birthday. &gt;&gt; Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go &lt;&lt; One of the cards came from the New England Patriots and was signed by head coach Mike Vrabel and several players. Tanzer also received a video call from Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a customized jersey with the number 105.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The oldest living World War II veteran in Massachusetts received a special birthday surprise. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, volunteers at the Veterans Council in Beverly collected birthday cards for Louis Tanzer&#8217;s 105th birthday. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt; <\/p>\n<p>One of the cards came from the New England Patriots and was signed by head coach Mike Vrabel and several players. <\/p>\n<p>Tanzer also received a video call from Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a customized jersey with the number 105. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The oldest living World War II veteran in Massachusetts received a special birthday surprise. Last month, volunteers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[101532,64849,14421,52601,101536,22242,7,60139,101533,7502,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,101537,37016,208,101540,837,64415,101538,9,101534,45097,16743,101539,101535],"class_list":{"0":"post-695888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-101532","9":"tag-beverly","10":"tag-birthday","11":"tag-birthday-card","12":"tag-birthday-cards","13":"tag-download","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-last-month","16":"tag-louis-tanzer","17":"tag-massachusetts","18":"tag-mike-vrabel","19":"tag-new-england","20":"tag-new-england-patriots","21":"tag-newengland","22":"tag-newenglandpatriots","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-old-wwii-veteran","25":"tag-patriot","26":"tag-patriots","27":"tag-patriots-owner-robert-kraft","28":"tag-robert-kraft","29":"tag-several-player","30":"tag-special-birthday-surprise","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-veterans-council","33":"tag-volunteer","34":"tag-world-war-ii","35":"tag-world-war-ii-veteran","36":"tag-wwii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115937846568890171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}