{"id":23120,"date":"2011-04-29T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23120"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:37:15","slug":"teen-succeeds-where-the-army-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23120","title":{"rendered":"Teen succeeds where the Army failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11th grader from <del datetime=\"2011-04-29T12:34:13+00:00\">Texas<\/del>Stafford, VA has done what the Army couldn&#8217;t do at Arlington National Cemetery &#8211; he&#8217;s recorded images and text of the honored dead&#8217;s memorials at Arlington (<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/apr\/26\/nation\/la-na-arlington-graves-20110427\">LA Times link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RPGIII\">Richard &#8220;Ricky&#8221; Gilleland III<\/a> \u2014 11th-grader and Junior Future Business Leaders of America computer ace \u2014 has succeeded where the Army failed: He has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington. His website, <a href=\"http:\/\/preserveandhonor.com\/\">preserveandhonor.com<\/a>, is a reverent catalog of the fallen, and one young man&#8217;s response to a scandal of Army mismanagement, mismarked graves and unmarked remains that has rocked this hallowed place for two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s hope for America yet when we can produce children like this despite the toxic climate in which we live.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a work in progress, I searched for some of my friends and they weren&#8217;t in the database yet.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ken for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11th grader from TexasStafford, VA has done what the Army couldn&#8217;t do at Arlington National &hellip; <a title=\"Teen succeeds where the Army failed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teen succeeds where the Army failed<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120","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=23120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}