{"id":14425,"date":"2009-09-16T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14425"},"modified":"2009-09-16T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:59:41","slug":"some-hump-day-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14425","title":{"rendered":"Some Hump Day perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/beaumont_soldierart_g0p671dk1_beaumont_soldier14869525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14426 aligncenter\" title=\"beaumont_soldierart_g0p671dk1_beaumont_soldier14869525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/beaumont_soldierart_g0p671dk1_beaumont_soldier14869525.jpg\" alt=\"beaumont_soldierart_g0p671dk1_beaumont_soldier14869525\" width=\"215\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TSO emailed me about the fellow in the picture, Specialist Reed Jones III with whom TSO got the opportunity to spend the afternoon  among other wounded veterans. Here&#8217;s the story of the picture from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/Despite_severe_injuries_soldier_leaves_BAMC_to_attend_fathers_funeral.html\">San Antonio News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although doctors initially were against him making the trip from Brooke Army Medical Center, where he is recovering from his injuries, Jones insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would do it for me, so I&#8217;d do it for him, so here I am,\u201d he said in an interview in the reclining wheelchair in which he attended the funeral Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jones arrived at Borden Chapel Baptist Church in an ambulance, accompanied by medics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the pain of the 283-mile journey, the 45-year-old Beaumont native would not have missed his father&#8217;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Reed Jones Jr. died at age 70 Tuesday after a long series of illnesses. Toward the end, in a weakened state, it was unclear how much he understood of his son&#8217;s injuries. He&#8217;d been told of the incident, but spared any details that might worry him too much, said the elder Jones&#8217; sister-in-law, Faye Johnson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TSO sends; &#8220;I wish I could convey how great a guy he was. Is on a ton of painkillers and just kept thanking us for visiting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you read the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO emailed me about the fellow in the picture, Specialist Reed Jones III with whom TSO &hellip; <a title=\"Some Hump Day perspective\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14425\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Hump Day perspective<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}