{"id":60734,"date":"2015-07-06T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60734"},"modified":"2015-07-05T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T23:13:36","slug":"horace-appleby-gets-his-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60734","title":{"rendered":"Horace Appleby gets his Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6, 1945, Horace Appleby and his unit from Echo Company, 180th Infantry Regiment withdrew under heavy fire from their positions. When they got to cover, Horace noticed that one of his friends was missing, so he plunged back into the heavy fire and guided his friend to relative safety. For his actions that day, 31-year-old PFC Appleby was awarded the Silver Star Medal, but according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/local\/2015\/07\/03\/101-year-old-veteran-receives-WWII-medals.html\">Toledo Blade<\/a>,  Horace, now 101-years-old, said &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think much about it&#8221;. His family, however wondered about what he did in the war, and did the research which unearthed the heroic story;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thursday, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) presented Mr. Appleby with 10 medals for his service during World War II. His medals, many of which he didn&#8217;t know he was entitled to until his great-niece, Renee Hahn of Perrysburg, started inquiring about his personnel records, include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge 1st Award, Honorable Service Lapel Button, and the Marksman Badge with rifle bar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s the family treasure,\u201d Mrs. Hahn said. \u201cYou better believe it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 180th Infantry Regiment produced four Medal of Honor recipients during their 511 days in combat in Europe; 2nd Lieutenant Ernest Childers, Private First Class William Johnston, 1st Lieutenant Jack Montgomery and Captain Jack Treadwell. I guess that Mr. Appleby would be the first to admit that he served with a regiment of heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6, 1945, Horace Appleby and his unit from Echo Company, 180th Infantry Regiment withdrew &hellip; <a title=\"Horace Appleby gets his Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60734\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horace Appleby gets his Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60734","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\/60734","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=60734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}