{"id":60617,"date":"2015-06-29T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60617"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:52:59","slug":"ernest-c-boren-gets-his-purple-heart-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60617","title":{"rendered":"Ernest C. Boren gets his Purple Heart back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60618\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ernest-C.-Boren-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Ernest C. Boren\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ernest-C.-Boren-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ernest-C.-Boren.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/purpleheartsreunited.org\/heart\/pfc-ernest-c-boren\/\">Purple Hearts Reunited<\/a> were able to return to Ernest C. Boren his Purple Heart medal. Usually PHR is only able to return the medals to the awardees&#8217; survivors, but in this instance, thankfully, the 91-year-old Mr. Boren, personally received the medal from PHR. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private First Class (PFC) Ernest C. Boren was born in 1924 in Idaho. On 20 January 1943, he enlisted in Sacramento, CA and joined the United States Army. He would later serve with Company A, 1st Battalion, 323rd Infantry Regiment, 81st Infantry Division, known as the \u201cWildcats,\u201d as a Medic. During operations at Peleliu Islands 17 October 1944, he was wounded in action. His actions at Peleliu also earned him the Bronze Star with Valor. His citation reads: \u201cwhile on a combat patrol, the company of which Boren was an aid man, was ambushed and suffered many casualties. Without hesitation and without regard for his personal safety he advanced to administer first aid under covering fire of elements of the company and in the face of the enemy fire. The soldierly virtues shown by Boren were an inspiration to those who witnessed his act of self-sacrifice and bravery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story continues that Mr. Boren had lost his medals years ago and had given up hope of ever seeing them again.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to PHR for providing such a valuable service for our veterans and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Purple Hearts Reunited were able to return to Ernest C. Boren his Purple &hellip; <a title=\"Ernest C. Boren gets his Purple Heart back\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60617\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ernest C. Boren gets his Purple Heart back<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60617","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=60617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}