{"id":37930,"date":"2013-10-11T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37930"},"modified":"2013-10-11T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:48:24","slug":"rip-nicholas-oresko-moh-battle-of-the-bulge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37930","title":{"rendered":"RIP Nicholas Oresko, MOH, Battle of the Bulge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37931\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Oresko.jpg\" alt=\"Oresko\" width=\"480\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Oresko.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Oresko-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Oresko-387x333.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/Funeral_for_WWII_hero_Nicholas_Oresko_being_held_today__at_Bergen_Community_College_-_watch_live_video.html\">Sad news from New Jersey:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In death, Nicholas Oresko received a farewell befitting the hero he was in life.<\/p>\n<p>The Bayonne native, the nation\u2019s oldest Medal of Honor recipient when he died Oct. 4 at age 96 at an Englewood hospital, was buried Thursday with military honors reserved for the highest-ranking officers and enlisted soldiers with the highest award for bravery.<\/p>\n<p>His public memorial at Bergen Community College\u2019s Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre in Paramus drew hundreds of mourners, from three-star generals and fellow Medal of Honor recipients to children who attended the elementary school named in his honor in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>More lined the route that his casket, carried in a \u201cdeuce and a half\u201d World War II Army truck, traveled along Paramus Road from an earlier private service to the college auditorium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video is outstanding:<br \/>\n<script height=\"408px\" width=\"600px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=6d621dda34864a4cada6d3bb55028b03&#038;ec=R4eDdvZjpB-EDUTPAExljlKsP2w_rrBz\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His citation reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>M\/Sgt. Oresko was a platoon leader with Company C, in an attack against strong enemy positions. Deadly automatic fire from the flanks pinned down his unit. Realizing that a machinegun in a nearby bunker must be eliminated, he swiftly worked ahead alone, braving bullets which struck about him, until close enough to throw a grenade into the German position. He rushed the bunker and, with pointblank rifle fire, killed all the hostile occupants who survived the grenade blast. Another machinegun opened up on him, knocking him down and seriously wounding him in the hip. Refusing to withdraw from the battle, he placed himself at the head of his platoon to continue the assault. As withering machinegun and rifle fire swept the area, he struck out alone in advance of his men to a second bunker. With a grenade, he crippled the dug-in machinegun defending this position and then wiped out the troops manning it with his rifle, completing his second self-imposed, 1-man attack. Although weak from loss of blood, he refused to be evacuated until assured the mission was successfully accomplished. Through quick thinking, indomitable courage, and unswerving devotion to the attack in the face of bitter resistance and while wounded, M \/Sgt. Oresko killed 12 Germans, prevented a delay in the assault, and made it possible for Company C to obtain its objective with minimum casualties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RIP sir. \/salute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news from New Jersey: In death, Nicholas Oresko received a farewell befitting the hero he &hellip; <a title=\"RIP Nicholas Oresko, MOH, Battle of the Bulge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37930\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Nicholas Oresko, MOH, Battle of the Bulge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}