{"id":26181,"date":"2011-08-15T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26181"},"modified":"2011-08-15T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:10:03","slug":"jarheads-gotta-luv-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26181","title":{"rendered":"Jarheads, Gotta Luv &#8217;em."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources are out there, but I&#8217;ll link to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/meet_corporal_d.html\" target=\"_blank\"> The Armorer.<\/a> His opening thoughts raise a point we&#8217;ve all speculated about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Aug. 13, 2011 &#8211; Removed from an ambushed platoon of Marines and soldiers in a remote Afghan village on Sept. 8, 2009, his reality viciously shaken by an onslaught of enemy fighters, Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyer simply reacted as he knew best &#8211; tackling what he called &#8220;extraordinary circumstances&#8221; by &#8220;doing the right thing &#8212; whatever it takes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years later, the White House announced yesterday that the 23-year-old Marine scout sniper from Columbia, Ky., who has since left the Marine Corps, will become the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in 38 years. Retired Sgt. Maj. Allan Kellogg Jr. received the medal in 1973 for gallantry in Vietnam three years earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leatherneckmagazine-digital.com\/leatherneckmagazine\/201104\/?pg=33#pg33\" target=\"_blank\">Leatherneck Magazine<\/a> via a commenter at the Armorer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources are out there, but I&#8217;ll link to The Armorer. His opening thoughts raise a &hellip; <a title=\"Jarheads, Gotta Luv &#8217;em.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26181\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jarheads, Gotta Luv &#8217;em.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}