{"id":35193,"date":"2013-04-19T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35193"},"modified":"2013-04-19T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:18:53","slug":"sailor-honored-by-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35193","title":{"rendered":"Sailor honored by crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/memorial-service-held-for-sailor-killed-after-defending-girlfriend-1.217290\">The Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the crew of the USS George Washington honored the memory of Seaman Apprentice Matthew Snow who stood in the way of his girlfriend&#8217;s ex-boyfriend and probably saved her life while giving his own in her defense;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Police said [Paul] Charles, [Vanessa] Vandermeeren-Sanchez\u2019s ex-boyfriend and father of her 2-year-old child, broke into her home around noon and began screaming at her, according to the Palm Beach Post. Charles then allegedly stabbed her in the chest and arm.<\/p>\n<p>Snow then fought with Charles and was stabbed three times, according to police cited in the Palm Beach Post.<\/p>\n<p>Charles fled and was later apprehended March 25 after an emergency call reported that a man was standing in the Palm Beach ocean surf with a knife clutched to his chest. Charles threatened suicide during a more than three-hour standoff, after which he surrendered to police, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Vandermeeren-Sanchez survived the stabbing and has been released from the hospital, according to media reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI hope I could show the same courage that he showed when he faced a deadly situation,\u201d said Snow\u2019s division officer, Lt. Thomas Miyano, according to a ship statement. \u201cI admire what he did.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the crew of the USS George Washington honored the memory &hellip; <a title=\"Sailor honored by crew\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35193\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sailor honored by crew<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35193","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=35193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}