{"id":32825,"date":"2012-11-13T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32825"},"modified":"2012-11-13T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:00:25","slug":"brothers-return-honor-to-family-of-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32825","title":{"rendered":"Brothers return honor to family of hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ret12B40 sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/boys-track-down-owner-war-medals-231512259--abc-news-topstories.html\">a link to the story<\/a> of two brothers, Michael and Mauro Mazzariello, 11 and 8 respectively, who found some medals in an antique shop that belonged to someone they&#8217;d never met and they decided to return the medals to the family where they belonged;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The purple heart, bronze star and good conduct awards they found in the tiny New York shop belonged to the namesake of Asheville, N.C.&#8217;s Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a recipient of the United States&#8217; highest military honor, the medal of honor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went in looking for a G.I. Joe Real American Hero and came out with a real American hero,&#8221; the 6th grader Michael said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mazzariello boys got to see the awards united with George&#8217;s family at a Veteran&#8217;s Day ceremony in North Carolina on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the most satisfying moment of my life, to finally give the medals back to them,&#8221; Michael said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I figured you&#8217;d like this one because it&#8217;s so rarely that we see someone return someone else&#8217;s valor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ret12B40 sends us a link to the story of two brothers, Michael and Mauro Mazzariello, 11 &hellip; <a title=\"Brothers return honor to family of hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32825\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brothers return honor to family of hero<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825","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=32825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}