{"id":38946,"date":"2013-12-20T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38946"},"modified":"2013-12-20T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:34:49","slug":"ssg-peter-woken-awarded-german-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38946","title":{"rendered":"SSG Peter Woken awarded German Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDnVvwfTrbg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Parachutecutie sends us a link to the story of Peter Woken who was awarded the Medal of Honor for Gallantry in Action of the Federal Republic of Germany in the German ambassador&#8217;s residence for his part in rescuing German Corporal Tim Focken in Afghanistan on October 17, 2010. Woken  was the last of eight Americans to be awarded the medal for their actions that day;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Focken and his unit were on patrol when he was shot in the left shoulder area by a sniper and the unit was pinned down by heavy enemy fire. Though disabled, Focken still encouraged his fellow soldiers in the fight. He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr and the Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal-Combat for his service.<\/p>\n<p>Focken vividly remembers watching the US Blackhawk abort a first landing attempt and then reappear a second time. \u201cSomehow I got another surge of energy,\u201d he said. Focken was able to run to the helicopter and jump onboard despite his severe injury. He called it a great honor to see his rescuer again.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of the wounded Focken making his way to the copter and the knowledge that he was still motivating his troops, though injured, has stuck with Staff Sergeant Woken. \u201cHe ran and jumped and continued to stay conscious,\u201d Woken said. \u201cI believe he did that for his team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more about the night at the Ambassador&#8217;s Residence at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germany.info\/Vertretung\/usa\/en\/__pr\/P__Wash\/2011\/12\/09__Medal__PR.html\">German Missions in the United States<\/a> link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutecutie sends us a link to the story of Peter Woken who was awarded the Medal &hellip; <a title=\"SSG Peter Woken awarded German Medal of Honor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38946\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSG Peter Woken awarded German Medal of Honor<\/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-38946","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\/38946","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=38946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}