{"id":23787,"date":"2011-06-08T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23787"},"modified":"2011-06-08T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:13:18","slug":"gold-star-father-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23787","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star father promoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Krisoff lost his son, Nathan, in the war against terror and his immediate reaction was to petition President Bush for a commission as a Navy doctor at the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LvitbS0oQF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17013597\">an article from 2007<\/a> when he was first commissioned;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In August, the surgeon seized an opportunity when he and his wife, Christine, were invited to meet President Bush in Reno along with the families of other fallen soldiers from the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He asked if there was anything he could do,&#8221; Krissoff said. &#8220;I said, &#8216;Well, there is one thing. I&#8217;d like to join the Navy Medical Corps. Is there any way you could help me with this process?&#8217; And Karl Rove was in the room and he asked me to fax my papers to him in the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Within days, Krissoff received a call from Navy Medical recruiter Lt. Cmdr. Ken Hopkins, who said Krissoff had been granted an age waiver and had a stack of papers to sign to become a military doctor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to BooRadley for the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Krisoff lost his son, Nathan, in the war against terror and his immediate reaction was &hellip; <a title=\"Gold Star father promoted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23787\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gold Star father promoted<\/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-23787","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\/23787","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=23787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}