{"id":26188,"date":"2011-08-16T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2011-08-16T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T13:23:25","slug":"rip-col-charles-p-murphy-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26188","title":{"rendered":"RIP Col. Charles P. Murray, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World War II Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Charles P. Murray died of heart failure last week according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/retired-col-charles-p-murray-jr-medal-of-honor-recipient-dies-at-89\/2011\/08\/15\/gIQAThxtHJ_story.html\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>. The 23-year-old lieutenant was in the 3rd Infantry Division in December, 1944 as he led his platoon through France;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Dec. 16, he was leading a platoon of about 35 down a mountain path near the town of Kaysersberg, in northeastern France, when he eyed about 200 Germans attacking another battalion of U.S. troops. Rather than take his men into a position where they would be devastatingly outnumbered, he moved forward alone and radioed for an artillery attack. It missed, and before he could correct the coordinates, he lost the radio signal.<\/p>\n<p>He then began launching grenades, revealing his own position and opening himself to a counterattack. Under heavy fire, he exhausted all the available grenades, according to a 2009 Army news release. He returned to his patrol, grabbed a rifle and returned to his position. He fired with such intensity \u2014 taking down 20 enemy soldiers and wounding numerous others \u2014 that the Germans began to withdraw, according to the Medal of Honor citation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Murrayy was later wounded when a German pretending to surrender tossed a grenade and injured Murray&#8217;s legs, but he refused to be evacuated until he insured that his platoon would be able to finish their mission.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, he continued his education on the GI Bill, then reenlisted and went on to serve in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War II Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Charles P. Murray died of heart failure last &hellip; <a title=\"RIP Col. Charles P. Murray, Jr.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26188\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Col. Charles P. Murray, Jr.<\/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-26188","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\/26188","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=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}