{"id":15131,"date":"2009-10-20T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15131"},"modified":"2009-10-20T07:27:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:27:24","slug":"presidential-unit-citation-awarded-39-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15131","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Unit Citation awarded 39 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/19\/AR2009101903458.html?hpid=artslot\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that the President will award a Presidential Unit Citation to an Army Cav unit that rode to the rescue of the comrades in Vietnam nearly forty years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alpha Troop, First Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment &#8212; has been awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for its &#8220;extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry&#8221; in the fight, and the soldiers have been summoned to be honored.<\/p>\n<p>A truck driver from Harrisonburg, an architect from California, a businessman from Texas, they have come from across the country, many having only in the last few months reopened that harrowing chapter of their lives, when as scared, young soldiers they stood face-to-face with the enemy, as Gutierrez says, in a kind of deadly prizefight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The analogy for me has always been: These two heavyweights stepping into the center of the ring,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then just going toe-to-toe, and pounding on each other . . . The first guy that connects, wins.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the President will award a Presidential Unit Citation to an Army &hellip; <a title=\"Presidential Unit Citation awarded 39 years later\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15131\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presidential Unit Citation awarded 39 years later<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131","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=15131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}