{"id":38730,"date":"2013-12-05T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38730"},"modified":"2013-12-05T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:56:06","slug":"peralta-medal-of-honor-case-goes-to-hagel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38730","title":{"rendered":"Peralta Medal of Honor case goes to Hagel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you already know the heroic story of Rafael Peralta, the Marine sergeant who had been severely wounded, yet still used his broken body to shield his mates from a grenade blast. he was awarded the Navy Cross for his final selfless act, but others think that he earned the Medal of Honor that day. One of those people is Congressman Duncan Hunter, who s asking Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to reconsider the award, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/4\/medal-of-honor-case-goes-to-third-defense-secretar\/\">Washington Times<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who served combat tours as a Marine officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, has made Sgt. Rafael Peralta\u2019s case a mission, and the congressman said Wednesday that the credibility of the Medal of Honor system is riding on whether the Defense Department gets his case right.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do the right thing on Peralta, it will show the military that, hey, we can do the Medal of Honor process properly,\u201d the congressman told The Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>He and two California Democrats, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Xavier Becerra, wrote a letter asking that the nomination be reopened.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication that Mr. Hagel has reopened the case, but Pentagon spokesman Carl Woog said the secretary is taking a look at some of the details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy Cross is nothing to sneeze at, but still, I hope the Defense Department does the right thing and honor this extraordinary Marine in the way that they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you already know the heroic story of Rafael Peralta, the Marine sergeant who had &hellip; <a title=\"Peralta Medal of Honor case goes to Hagel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38730\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peralta Medal of Honor case goes to Hagel<\/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-38730","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\/38730","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=38730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}