{"id":32102,"date":"2012-09-22T08:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32102"},"modified":"2012-09-22T08:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:18:04","slug":"sfc-james-rade-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32102","title":{"rendered":"SFC James Rade; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinewsnow.com\/news\/local\/Peoria-soldier-saves-life-of-injured-Bloomington-woman-170556336.html\">A local news station<\/a> in Illinois tells the story of SFC James Rade who came upon a woman who had injured herself when she fell from her horse while he was scouting for his deer stand;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Evaluating a casualty, which I was trained on in the Illinois Army National Guard, played a vital role in what I was able to do for the woman when I found her,&#8221; said Sgt. 1st Class James Rade. &#8220;I went right into my military training and kept my mind focused on the well-being of the woman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[Susan] O&#8217;Rourke says Rade did save her life. &#8220;I would not have survived if it wasn&#8217;t for the National Guardsman that came along,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He was very professional and used his skills&#8230;he kept me calm and I trusted him to make the decisions needed to care for me and administer proper first aid.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the national media would rather tell about people who have tenuous connections to the military and commit crimes than the veterans like SFC Rade who are saving the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local news station in Illinois tells the story of SFC James Rade who came upon &hellip; <a title=\"SFC James Rade; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32102\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC James Rade; saving the world one person at a time<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32102","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=32102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}