{"id":36339,"date":"2013-06-20T19:10:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36339"},"modified":"2013-06-20T19:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:10:55","slug":"happy-birthday-audie-leon-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36339","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Audie Leon Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/audie-murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/audie-murphy-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"audie-murphy\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/audie-murphy-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/audie-murphy.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was honored that I served in the 15th Infantry Regiment which claims Audie Murphy who was born 88 years ago today and went on to be the most decorated soldier of the Second World War before he reached the age of twenty. He was also awarded every medal for valor with the exception of an Army Commendation Medal with a Valor device. After World War Two he joined the Texas National Guard in the hope that he would go to the Korean War, but his unit didn&#8217;t deploy, but he was promoted to the rank of major while serving in the Guard.<\/p>\n<p>During the Vietnam War, he lobbied for more support for victims of Post Traumatic Stress, something he himself had dealt with while trying to be a civilian. He became addicted to sleeping pills in the mid-60s and then beat the addiction by locking himself in a hotel room for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Brian and ROS for reminding us of the man who was a hero in so many ways and still lives in our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was honored that I served in the 15th Infantry Regiment which claims Audie Murphy who &hellip; <a title=\"Happy Birthday, Audie Leon Murphy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36339\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday, Audie Leon Murphy<\/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-36339","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\/36339","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=36339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}