{"id":39882,"date":"2014-02-18T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39882"},"modified":"2014-02-18T08:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:25:55","slug":"sergeant-joseph-love-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39882","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Joseph Love; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WHTM.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=67785;hostDomain=www.abc27.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9850222;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc27.com\" title=\"abc27 WHTM\">abc27 WHTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Daniel Famous, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman instructor at Fort Indiantown Gap discovered that he needed a kidney last year. Fellow Guardsman Sergeant Joseph Love stepped up when he discovered that he was a match for SGT Famous, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc27.com\/story\/24746172\/midstate-soldier-donates-kidney-to-comrade\">WHTM<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love started the rigorous, five-month process of testing to see if he could donate a kidney to Famous. He found out in August that he was a perfect match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just said, &#8216;Oh by the way, for the last five months I&#8217;ve been going through this testing process and I&#8217;m a match for your kidney. So, if you want it, it&#8217;s yours,&#8217; and he was at loss for words, which he never is,&#8221; said Love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just thinking about how selfless and how wonderful of a gift this was for one person to give another person. He&#8217;s basically given me the gift of life,&#8221; Famous said.<\/p>\n<p>Famous and Love will go under the knife just a few days after Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the Army values, it&#8217;s part of the warrior ethos: never leave a fallen comrade. Selfless service. I mean these are things that the Army calls us to, but above the Army, I wanted to,&#8221; said Love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking for this article, I found another soldier who did the same thing last year for another soldier;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon learning of Porter&#8217;s need for a kidney, [Retired Lt. Col. Beth Ward] immediately called The University of Kansas Hospital to begin the screening process.  She&#8217;s now scheduled to donate her kidney to [Retired Lt. Col. Scott Porter] on Tuesday, Nov. 12, one day after Veterans Day. Although the procedure&#8217;s timing is random, both admit the proximity to Veterans Day holds special meaning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many times do you get a chance to save somebody&#8217;s life? I think that&#8217;s pretty awesome,&#8221; said Ward. &#8220;The military is like a family\u2026if you can help some member of your family, why not?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought these stories would provide a contrast to the Wisconsin National Guard funeral detail story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>abc27 WHTM Sergeant Daniel Famous, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman instructor at Fort Indiantown Gap discovered that &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant Joseph Love; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39882\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant Joseph Love; saving the world one person at a time<\/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-39882","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\/39882","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=39882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}