{"id":2448286,"date":"2019-09-03T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=312256"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:20:01","slug":"10th-mountain-division-veteran-sandy-treat-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/10th-mountain-division-veteran-sandy-treat-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Mountain Division veteran Sandy Treat dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sandy Treat was one of the Rocky Mountain Masters Series most accomplished racers after he moved to Vail.<\/strong>
Colorado Snowsports Museum\/Special to the Vail Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

VAIL \u2014 After training in Camp Hale and fighting through Europe with the famed 10th Mountain Division, Vail icon Sandy Treat spent the rest of his life smiling.<\/p>\n

Treat\u2019s life ended at 96 on Sunday, but his smile lives on.<\/p>\n

Among so many other contributions to his community, Treat hosted the Colorado Snowsports Museum\u2019s Tales of the 10th, a weekly series of talks by members of the 10th Mountain Division. The standing-room-only crowds almost always greeted Treat with a hero\u2019s welcome. He deserved it, as do thousands of others.<\/p>\n

Treat fought with the 10th Mountain Division across the mountains and valleys of northern Italy during World War II.<\/p>\n

After working his way through the Ski Museum crowd of well wishers and fans, Treat would take a seat at the front of the room, clear his throat and begin to tell stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s make this a happy thing. I\u2019ve seen a lot of unhappy things, lots of terrible things,\u201d Treat told the crowd.<\/p>\n

Teenaged warriors<\/h3>\n

Treat was 19 when he and other members of the 10th shipped out to Europe for the war. His presentation shifted from week to week, depending on the questions he was asked and the stories that followed. At the end he fielded questions. Someone always asked, \u201cWere you scared when you went to war?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure!\u201d came Treat\u2019s reply. \u201cWhen someone next to me was shot, I was damned scared!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pepi Gramshammer recruited Treat to Vail with a simple admonition: \u201cYou must come to \u2018Wail!\u2019 That\u2019s the place!\u201d So, in 1986 after a successful business career, Sandy did.<\/p>\n

He had a big effect on the small town.<\/p>\n

Treat served on the boards of the Rotary Club, the Jimmy Heuga Foundation and Country Club of the Rockies. He was an integral part of Rocky Mountain Masters Ski Series and raced well into his 80s. He supported the Vail Valley Charitable Fund through the Barbara Treat Foundation.<\/p>\n

He was an avid golfer and a member of the No Names, a men\u2019s Friday lunch group, and won the Inaugural Heart of the Community Award.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandy Treat was one of the Rocky Mountain Masters Series most accomplished racers after he moved to Vail.Colorado Snowsports Museum\/Special to the Vail Daily VAIL \u2014 After training in Camp Hale and fighting through Europe with the famed 10th Mountain Division, Vail icon Sandy Treat spent the rest of his life smiling. Treat\u2019s life ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 03:13:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}