{"id":22758,"date":"2011-03-30T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22758"},"modified":"2011-03-30T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:12:50","slug":"soldier-rescues-4-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22758","title":{"rendered":"Soldier rescues 4 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvue.com\/home\/Teenage-soldier-saves-four-from-burning-van-118405824.html\">ROS sent us a link about Joemari Ortiz<\/a>, a young PFC in Charlie Company, 636th Military Intelligence Battalion of the Texas National Guard who charged across the street and into a van which was about to burst to burst into flames and rescued four people from that fate;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I knew at any moment it could explode,&#8221; said Ortiz.  &#8220;I wanted to get those people out of there before it happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz ran across the street, rounded up help, knocked out the windows, cut seat belts, and got everyone out just seconds before the van was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz says people told him later that he said, &#8220;&#8216;Come with me, go over there, do that.&#8217;  I just remember getting them out there and getting them somewhere safe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While everyone is praising Ortiz for his courageous actions, wanna know who he credits?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ortiz says he is not the hero; it is the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad to be in the Army,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The experience, it really changes how a person thinks (and) acts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says that Ortiz joined the Army when he was 16, I don&#8217;t know what that&#8217;s about, but his profile is in the Army Knowledge Online database.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"288\" width=\"470\"><param name=\"movie\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kvue.com\/v\/?i=118405824\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kvue.com\/v\/?i=118405824\" AllowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" height=\"288\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"470\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sent us a link about Joemari Ortiz, a young PFC in Charlie Company, 636th Military &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier rescues 4 people\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22758\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier rescues 4 people<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758","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=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}