{"id":32314,"date":"2012-10-09T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32314"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:00:29","slug":"marines-help-ill-boy-to-complete-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32314","title":{"rendered":"Marines help ill boy to complete race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, if you can <a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/docs\/DOC-854041\">make it through this story <\/a>without welling up, you&#8217;re a stronger person than I;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The boy was 11-year-old Ben Baltz of Valparaiso, Florida. At six years old, Ben was diagnosed with bone cancer in his right leg and had his fibula and tibia removed. He walks with a mechanical knee and prosthetic walking leg, which he switches out for a running leg to play sports (including soccer, baseball and children&#8217;s triathlons). On Sunday, Ben completed the 150-yard swim and 4-mile bike ride and half the one-mile run when a screw came loose and his running leg broke in half.<\/p>\n<p>His mom was standing at the finish line, wondering what happened. &#8216;It was only a mile, I knew he was tired, I was like, &#8216;Where is he, where is he, where is he,&#8217; his mother, Kim Baltz, told CNN iReport. &#8216;All of a sudden the announcer just said, &#8216;Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to turn around and look at what&#8217;s happening on the course&#8217; &#8230; Everybody was crying. It was just very touching that the Marines were there. They picked him up and everybody was cheering and just giving them support and Ben support.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The Marine who carried Ben is Matthew Morgan, Private First Class at Marine Detachment Corry Station, a training command in Pensacola&#8230;&#8221;he picked that young boy up quick, threw him on his back and ran the rest of the course &#8230; We&#8217;re pumped.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to TSO for the link. I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, if you can make it through this story without welling up, you&#8217;re a stronger person &hellip; <a title=\"Marines help ill boy to complete race\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32314\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines help ill boy to complete race<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32314","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=32314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}