{"id":1378,"date":"2008-02-08T02:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/08\/1378\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:56:41","slug":"1378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/1378\/","title":{"rendered":"Help honor Lt. Col. Matt Urban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lt__col__matt_louis_urban.jpg?w=640\" hspace=\"6\" alt=\"Matt  Urban\" title=\"Matt  Urban\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I get writing about what I am going to be writing about, I wanted to throw a little BFA love out to the ever-dedicated crew at the AM-POL Eagle\u2026why\u2026you don\u2019t really read about the things they do for Buffalo\u2019s historic Polonia, but they help out in many ways\u2026far too many ways for me to mention here\u2026little things\u2026big things\u2026medium size things\u2026the bottom line is they help in keeping the neigborhood ALIVE in the hearts and minds of people who read their paper or make their way to their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ampoleagle.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>So how does the AM-POL Eagle tie into this article you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/05\/am-pol-eagle-maziarz-pushes-for-courthouse-to-be-names-after-lt-col-urban\/\">if you recall, I posted a link to an article by them<\/a> about an effort to get the new federal courthouse being built in downtown Buffalo to be named after Lt. Col. Matt Urban. If you have never read the story of Matt Urban, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Urban\">you should<\/a>.\u00a0 He is simply the most decorated American serviceman ever and had his humble beginnings here in B-F at 1153 Broadway a few doors down from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanctr.org\/\">Polish Community Center which now bares his name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After I read the article, I emailed the AM-POL Eagle editor Roger Puchalski about asking what BFA could do to help.<\/p>\n<p>His reply led me to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spyguystvshow.com\/\">\u201cThe Polish Prince\u201d Norm Skulski<\/a> which led BFA to help promote the effort.<\/p>\n<p>This internet thingy dingy is truly an amazing networking tool\u2026what you can do <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/MattUrban\/\">is sign the online petition asking that the courthouse be name in his honor<\/a>\u2026you can also send the petition around to your family and friends asking them to sign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/MattUrban\/\">http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/MattUrban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you have a website, place one of these banners on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/08\/1378\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/urban1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"urban1.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/02\/08\/1378\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/urban2.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"urban2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/urbanembed.txt\">code to embed is here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get writing about what I am going to be writing about, I wanted to throw a little BFA love out to the ever-dedicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-bf-people","category-b-f-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1Wcy1-1378","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}