{"id":527,"date":"2025-12-24T01:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=527"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:34:43","slug":"with-heavy-hearts-we-anno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"With heavy hearts, we anno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life and Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.com_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/trendusa1.com\/trendusa1.com_responsive_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Betty Reid Soskin was a trailblazer whose impact \u201creached far beyond the recognition she received,\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/trendusa1.com\/trendusa1.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>reshaping how American history is understood and remembered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Passing and Recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.com_responsive_3\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/trendusa1.com\/trendusa1.com_responsive_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She died peacefully on December 21, 2025, at age 104. At the time, she was known as<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe oldest living National Park Service ranger,\u201d reflecting her lifelong dedication to truth and public memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redefining History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soskin joined the National Park Service in her mid-80s at the Rosie the Riveter\/World War II Home Front park,<\/p>\n<p>where she insisted that \u201cthe experiences of African Americans and other marginalized communities be fully included\u201d in wartime history.<\/p>\n<p>She retired in 2022 at age 100.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enduring Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From co-founding one of the first Black-owned music stores to advocating for equity, Soskin \u201cdid more than witness history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She expanded it, ensuring overlooked voices were finally heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life and Legacy Betty Reid Soskin was a trailblazer whose impact \u201creached far beyond the recognition she received,\u201d reshaping how American history is understood and remembered. Passing and Recognition She died peacefully on December 21, 2025, at age 104. At the time, she was known as \u201cthe oldest living National Park Service ranger,\u201d reflecting her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}