{"id":155370,"date":"2024-04-08T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155370"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:24:13","slug":"last-korean-war-moh-recipient-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155370","title":{"rendered":"Last Korean War MoH recipient dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113192\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PUCKETT-252x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colonel Ralph Puckett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We really don&#8217;t want this blog to be an obituary page, but we can&#8217;t let the passing of a legend like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=113242\">Colonel Puckett<\/a> go unmentioned. You&#8217;ll recall that Puckett received the Medal of Honor in 2021 for actions during the Korean War. After the 2022 passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134240\">Staff Sergeant Hiroshi Miyamura<\/a>, Puckett was the last living Medal of Honor recipient from that conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/04\/08\/the-last-surviving-medal-of-honor-recipient-of-the-korean-war-has-died\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=army-dnr\">Army times has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ralph Puckett Jr., an Army veteran who was the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the Korean War, died on Monday at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>Puckett was awarded the military\u2019s highest honor by President Joe Biden in 2021, more than 70 years after his heroism overseas. In a statement, officials from the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation hailed him and the 146 other Medal of Honor recipients from that war as models for heroism and service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCol. Ralph Puckett was the last of a generation of extraordinary heroes,\u201d said Chris Cassidy, president and CEO of the foundation. \u201cHis actions [on the battlefield] reverberated far beyond the Korean peninsula as his courage, sacrifice, commitment and patriotism have inspired Americans for over 70 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WRBL reported that Puckett died at his home in Columbus, Georgia, in his sleep early Monday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more on him at the source, or you can click the link at the top of the article for my Valor Friday write up on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really don&#8217;t want this blog to be an obituary page, but we can&#8217;t let the &hellip; <a title=\"Last Korean War MoH recipient dies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155370\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Korean War MoH recipient dies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":113192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,10,357,593,389,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army","category-historical","category-korea","category-medal-of-honor","category-valor","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155370","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=155370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}