{"id":37153,"date":"2013-08-19T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37153"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:41:32","slug":"jake-tapper-an-unlikely-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37153","title":{"rendered":"Jake Tapper Reports: An Unlikely Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO&#8217;s buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/16\/jake-tapper-reports-an-unlikely-hero-to-air-aug-21-at-10pm-et\/\">Jake Tapper<\/a> emailed him to get the word out about Tapper&#8217;s upcoming documentary about Staff Sergeant Ty Carter who has been recently selected for the Medal of Honor for his actions at COP Keating;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tapper traveled to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state for the interview with Carter, whose Medal of Honor for his valorous action during the October 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating will mark the first time in nearly fifty years that two living service members are awarded the nation\u2019s highest honor for actions during the same battle. In February, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha.<\/p>\n<p>Carter and Romesha were central figures in Tapper\u2019s New York Times bestselling book, \u201cThe Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.\u201d The book, which will be published in paperback on October 22, chronicles the troubled history of one of the most remote American military posts in Afghanistan and the eight American service members killed in the October 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating. Tapper traveled to Afghanistan twice while reporting the book. For more about Ty Carter\u2019s story from \u201cThe Outpost\u201d click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OutpostBook\/app_381772615224579\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep_1424\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&#038;profile=desktop&#038;context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2013\/07\/26\/lead-medal-of-honor-ty-carter-afghanistan.cnn&#038;contentId=bestoftv\/2013\/07\/26\/lead-medal-of-honor-ty-carter-afghanistan.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&#038;profile=desktop&#038;context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2013\/07\/26\/lead-medal-of-honor-ty-carter-afghanistan.cnn&#038;contentId=bestoftv\/2013\/07\/26\/lead-medal-of-honor-ty-carter-afghanistan.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I trust that Jake, one of the last surviving journalists, will do an excellent job with this story. The program will be on CNN Wednesday August 21st at 10 PM, so be sure to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO&#8217;s buddy, Jake Tapper emailed him to get the word out about Tapper&#8217;s upcoming documentary about &hellip; <a title=\"Jake Tapper Reports: An Unlikely Hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37153\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jake Tapper Reports: An Unlikely 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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37153","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\/37153","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=37153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}