{"id":29308,"date":"2012-03-29T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29308"},"modified":"2012-03-29T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T12:34:42","slug":"guardsman-spc-dennis-weichel-rescues-af-girl-dies-in-the-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29308","title":{"rendered":"Guardsman Spc. Dennis Weichel rescues AF girl, dies in the attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/28\/us\/rhode-island-guard-death\/index.html?hpt=hp_c3\">CNN reports<\/a> that Spc. Dennis Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, lost his own life when he saved an Afghan girl from being crushed under an MRAP last week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Rhode Island National Guard and the U.S. Army, Weichel was in a convoy a week ago with his unit in Laghman Province, in northeast Afghanistan. Some children were in the road in front of the convoy, and Weichel and other troops got out to move them out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the children moved, but one little girl went back to pick up some brass shell casings in the road. Afghan civilians often recycle the casings, and the girl appeared to aim to do that. But a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle was moving toward her, according to Lt. Col. Denis Riel of the Rhode Island National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>MRAPs, as they are known, usually weigh more than 16 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Weichel saw massive truck bearing down on the girl and grabbed her out of the way. But in the process, the armored truck ran him over, Riel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the kinds of things that happen every day, but you never hear about because it&#8217;s not as important as Koran burnings, urination videos and a lone nut shooting 17 people.<\/p>\n<p>I seriously dislike Lincoln Chaffee, the <del datetime=\"2012-03-29T12:34:15+00:00\">Republican<\/del> Independent governor of Rhode Island, but in this case, I have to commend him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has ordered flags in the state lowered to half-staff until Weichel, who was posthumously promoted to sergeant, is laid to rest Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Spc. Dennis Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, lost his own life when &hellip; <a title=\"Guardsman Spc. Dennis Weichel rescues AF girl, dies in the attempt\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29308\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guardsman Spc. Dennis Weichel rescues AF girl, dies in the attempt<\/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-29308","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\/29308","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=29308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}