{"id":37660,"date":"2013-09-20T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37660"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:15:33","slug":"medal-of-honor-society-convention-in-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37660","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor Society convention in Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill reminds us that about half of the living recipients of our nation&#8217;s highest award, the Medal of Honor, are gathered for their annual convention in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_MEDALS_OF_HONOR?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2013-09-20-05-55-34\">The Associated Press<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recipients&#8217; autographs sometimes end up on public auction sites, but Loether said he collects them as a hobby that began as a way to honor his sons in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients sat at tables ringing a hotel ballroom, including Clinton L. Romesha of Minot, N.D. President Barack Obama presented him with the honor in February for bravery in defending an Army outpost in Afghanistan four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now working in safety for a construction company, Romesha, 32, said he tries to remind himself that he&#8217;s still the same person he was before, a man who has to take out the trash himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought in a million years I&#8217;d ever meet a recipient, let alone be one,&#8221; said Romesha, who was attending his first convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill reminds us that about half of the living recipients of our nation&#8217;s highest award, the &hellip; <a title=\"Medal of Honor Society convention in Gettysburg\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37660\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medal of Honor Society convention in Gettysburg<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660","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=37660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}