{"id":34767,"date":"2013-03-26T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34767"},"modified":"2013-03-26T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:36:20","slug":"wounded-soldiers-request-goes-unheeded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34767","title":{"rendered":"Wounded soldier&#8217;s request goes unheeded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Private-Emily-Tomkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Private-Emily-Tomkins-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Private Emily Tomkins\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Private-Emily-Tomkins-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Private-Emily-Tomkins.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This one is going to get me in trouble, but the story bears repeating. It&#8217;s about Private Emily Tomkins who was treating a recently wounded soldier in Afghanistan, both of his legs removed by an Improvised Explosive. She was a medic and had just administered a shot of morphine that didn&#8217;t seem to be doing it&#8217;s job. She explained to the soldier that she couldn&#8217;t give him another for fear of making his condition worse. So <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5992343\/gravely-wounded-soldier-asks-hero-medic-to-show-him-her-boobs-in-lieu-of-morphine\">the wounded youngster told her<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well do something useful and show me your boobs,&#8221; she recalled the soldier saying.<\/p>\n<p>Brushing off his request, Tomkins proceeded to carry the injured wounded soldier to safety and is credited with saving his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just doing my job,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, I can see that being a true story. That probably would have been my last request, too. Don&#8217;t hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is going to get me in trouble, but the story bears repeating. It&#8217;s about &hellip; <a title=\"Wounded soldier&#8217;s request goes unheeded\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34767\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wounded soldier&#8217;s request goes unheeded<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767","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=34767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}