{"id":150534,"date":"2023-12-08T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150534"},"modified":"2023-12-07T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:01:10","slug":"valor-friday-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150534","title":{"rendered":"Valor Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-150535 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image001-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image001-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image001-333x333.png 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image001-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image001.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As yesterday was the anniversary of the day &#8220;which will live in infamy,&#8221; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, for this Valor Friday we&#8217;ll be revisiting some past articles. Of the men who served at Pearl, I&#8217;ve written about;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108147\">Ensign Joseph Taussig<\/a> &#8211; Officer of the Deck on USS Nevada (BB-36). Earned the Navy Cross that day as he led his ship (having graduated Annapolis less than a year prior) into action, the only American battleship to get underway during the attack. Lost his leg for it, and refused to leave his post until forcibly removed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86868\">Captain Mervyn Bennion and Messman First Class Doris Miller<\/a> &#8211; Captain and cook respectively of USS West Virginia (BB-48). Bennion was mortally wounded at his post while leading the ship, ordering his men to leave him behind. Miller, who came to Bennion&#8217;s aid amidst the battle, then famously manned an anti-aircraft gun (perhaps downing an enemy plane) without having any training on the weapon. He then spent the rest of the day helping evacuate the wounded from his ship. Bennion posthumously received the Medal of Honor and Miller received the Navy Cross (the first black man to earn it).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120420\">Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Howell Forgy, Chaplain Corps<\/a> &#8211; Ship&#8217;s chaplain for USS New Orleans (CA-32). Was aboard ship that Sunday morning preparing his sermon when the ship was rocked by enemy fire. As a non-combatant, he was forbidden from taking up arms. So instead he inspired the men with the encouraging words of &#8220;Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!&#8221; It inspired a popular song too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=126647\">Motor Machinists Mate 2nd Class Marcus Poston<\/a> &#8211; Was the first air-to-air kill of the war when his Piper Cub, which he was flying as a civilian, was attacked by Japanese Zeros over Oahu.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120708\">Lieutenant Clarence Dickinson<\/a> &#8211; A Naval Aviator flying into Oahu from USS Enterprise in an SBD Dauntless dive bomber. Coming into the already fierce battle, Dickinson earned the Navy Cross for diving into action, ultimately losing his gunner, Radioman First Class William Miller, and had to bail out of his plane after being shot down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was also invited this week to be a guest on a history movie podcast. If you&#8217;re so inclined to listen, <a href=\"https:\/\/spotify.link\/Z5jNuNzNYDb\">here&#8217;s the link<\/a>. We fittingly chose the absolutely terrible 2001 Michael Bay film &#8220;Pearl Harbor&#8221; as our subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As yesterday was the anniversary of the day &#8220;which will live in infamy,&#8221; the Japanese attack &hellip; <a title=\"Valor Friday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150534\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valor Friday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":150535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,593,119,610,389,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-medal-of-honor","category-navy","category-navy-cross-valor","category-valor","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150534","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163968,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150534\/revisions\/163968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}