{"id":57589,"date":"2015-01-11T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57589"},"modified":"2015-01-11T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:30:02","slug":"sergeant-anders-n-olafson-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57589","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Anders N. Olafson saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57590\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Anders-Olafson.jpg\" alt=\"Anders Olafson\" width=\"232\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57590\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20150111\/NEWS03\/150119808\">The Watertown Daily Times <\/a>tells the story of how Sergeant Anders N. Olafson, a Fort Drum sergeant with the 3\/71st Cavalry, rescued eight people from a fiery death;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Hitchcock credited Mr. Olafson \u2014 whom he met in Afghanistan in December 2013 while they were members of the 2nd Platoon in the 3rd Battalion, 71st Cavalry Regiment \u2014 for his take-charge response to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a soldier, he\u2019s trained to not leave anyone behind. And he did the right thing to save everyone\u2019s lives,\u201d Mr. Hitchcock said. \u201cWe would have not gotten out if it weren\u2019t for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Schnurer said the 30 seconds it took her to get from the house to the road was enough time for the fire to entirely consume the house, adding that its two open doors caused the flames to spread rapidly. She said she feels lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all agree that if Andy hadn\u2019t woke up when he did to come and get us, we all would have died,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times tells the story of how Sergeant Anders N. Olafson, a Fort Drum &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant Anders N. Olafson saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57589\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant Anders N. Olafson saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589","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=57589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}