{"id":39268,"date":"2014-01-13T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39268"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:10:46","slug":"navy-cross-recipient-charged-with-killing-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39268","title":{"rendered":"Navy Cross recipient charged with killing birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/article\/20140111\/NEWS\/140119830?Title=Port-Orange-veteran-Navy-Cross-recipient-charged-with-killing-crane#gsc.tab=0\">Daytona News-Journal<\/a> which reports that Donald A. Daigneault, a Korean War veteran who earned the Navy Cross is facing charges for &#8220;shooting&#8221; some sandhill cranes. 81-year-old Daigneault claims that he &#8220;shot&#8221; the cranes with a sling shot and some marbles to keep them from ruining his yard, but a neighbor claims to have heard gunfire;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daigneault said the cranes were damaging his house, costing him about $200 to repair screens. He said his home\u2019s windows have reflective film to protect against hurricanes. But he said the cranes see their reflections in the windows and start banging their beaks on the glass. It sounds like someone smacking the glass with a stick, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they finished destroying my bird feeder, they would stand there and look at themselves and bang on my windows,\u201d Daigneault said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Daigneault is listed as a legitimate recipient of the medal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daigneault was a 19-year-old private first class in the Marine Corps on Sept. 12, 1951 with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines and 1st Marine Division (Reinforced), according to the Military Times website. Daigneault\u2019s squad was attacking an enemy-controlled hill when it found itself among mines and booby traps.<\/p>\n<p>Daigneault, suffering from shrapnel wounds, saw enemy soldiers preparing to attack the wounded and vulnerable squad. Daigneault crawled to an exposed area and drew fire away from his comrades, then opened fire and killed four attackers, wounded another three and forced the others to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Daigneault was \u201cresponsible for saving the lives of his comrades and for the accomplishment of his unit\u2019s mission,\u201d according to the Military Times website.<\/p>\n<p>He would say little on Thursday about the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy squad got wiped out. We were either killed or wounded,\u201d Daigneault said. \u201cI was one of the fortunate ones who made it back to the MASH because some South Korean guy carried me on his back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was carrying a BAR, or Browning Automatic Rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t know how many I shot,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to the Daytona News-Journal which reports that Donald A. Daigneault, a &hellip; <a title=\"Navy Cross recipient charged with killing birds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39268\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Cross recipient charged with killing birds<\/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-39268","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\/39268","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=39268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}