{"id":32752,"date":"2012-11-09T07:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32752"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T11:03:55","slug":"frank-recce-saving-his-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32752","title":{"rendered":"Frank Recce: saving his neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Plain Jason sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/11\/08\/young-army-veteran-leads-cleanup-crew-on-storm-stricken-staten-island\/\">a link to an article about Frank Recce<\/a> a wounded Iraq veteran in New York who didn&#8217;t wait for FEMA to come and help his community cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy &#8211; he organized a group of men into a team. the group grew from 12 to over 100 and, in walkie-talkie communication, they help their neighborhood recover;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re basically giving the people of the neighborhood organization,\u201d Recce told FoxNews.com. \u201cWe were able to hit more than 200 houses by Monday. We\u2019ve done more for our community than FEMA, the Red Cross and the National Guard combined, directly hitting houses and people in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt basically signifies that we\u2019re willing to get dirty, to do the labor,\u201d Recce said of the group\u2019s name. \u201cAnd we\u2019re from the neighborhood; we\u2019re strictly from the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always said that veterans have seen their government at it&#8217;s best and at it&#8217;s worst, and recognize that there&#8217;s not much difference between the two. I&#8217;m sure that was in young Recce&#8217;s mind when he began this project instead of twiddling his thumbs waiting for FEMA to come and rescue him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Plain Jason sends us a link to an article about Frank Recce a wounded Iraq &hellip; <a title=\"Frank Recce: saving his neighborhood\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32752\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank Recce: saving his neighborhood<\/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-32752","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\/32752","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=32752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}