{"id":51886,"date":"2014-06-21T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51886"},"modified":"2014-06-21T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:08:07","slug":"lance-corporal-brandon-garabrant-rip-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51886","title":{"rendered":"Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant; RIP, Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=51888\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garabrant-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"garabrant-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garabrant-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garabrant-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garabrant-1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Marine Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant&#8217;s high school, ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough, New Hampshire <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2013\/06\/05\/nh-high-school-says-teen-cannot-wear-marine-uniform-to-graduation\/\">wouldn&#8217;t let him wear his uniform<\/a> to graduation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The consensus is that all students should dress alike, and no one should be singled out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a celebration of a class much like a celebration of a team, a group that\u2019s been together,\u201d said Principal Brian Pickering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2014\/06\/20\/nh-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-2\/\">he&#8217;ll be buried in his uniform<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lance Cpl. Brandon Garabrant, 19, was one of three U.S. service members killed by a roadside bomb Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire State of New Hampshire is devastated by the tragic loss of Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant, who was bravely serving his nation in Afghanistan,\u201d Governor Maggie Hassan said in a statement. \u201cOur service men and women courageously sacrifice every day to protect their fellow citizens and defend the enduring value of freedom that is our very core, and in doing so, Lance Corporal Garabrant made the ultimate sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[,,,]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the entire ConVal community I extend my deepest sympathy to Brandon\u2019s family and friends,\u201d Principal Brian Pickering said. \u201cWe are all shocked and deeply saddened by his passing and we are incredibly grateful for his service to our country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Tango sent us the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Marine Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant&#8217;s high school, ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough, New &hellip; <a title=\"Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant; RIP, Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51886\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant; RIP, Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51886","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=51886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}