{"id":62224,"date":"2015-10-11T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62224"},"modified":"2015-10-10T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T08:53:36","slug":"a-life-well-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62224","title":{"rendered":"A Well-Lived and Honorable Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll go out on a limb and say we\u2019ve all known a certifiable badass or two along the way.\u00a0 That is, someone who &#8211; when push came to shove &#8211; kept their cool and performed an incredible, dangerous feat at the risk of their own life.<\/p>\n<p>Those kind of people seems to be relatively common in the military, actually.\u00a0 How much of that is due to more opportunity; how much to training; how much to pre-screening to weed out the weak; how much to the military&#8217;s culture attracting, then developing them? \u00a0Dunno.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to one such individual\u2019s story. \u00a0It&#8217;s a story that\u2019s not received a lot of notice until very recently &#8211; and even today, it doesn&#8217;t seem that well known.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I find this man&#8217;s story . . . unusual.\u00a0 And compelling.\u00a0 And amazing.<\/p>\n<p>And much like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60763\">another individual featured here not long ago<\/a><\/em>, the man at the story&#8217;s center\u00a0never sought publicity for what he\u2019d done.<\/p>\n<p>You can <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/29\/us\/vietnam-sea-rescue\/\">read the story here<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s from a source I don\u2019t normally visit, so I missed it when it first appeared a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>But before you read, you might want to grab a tissue or two.\u00a0 You just might need them.<\/p>\n<p>I salute you, Ba Van Nguyen &#8211; both for what you did in 1975, and for how you lived your life\u00a0afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Yours was &#8220;a life well-lived&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll go out on a limb and say we\u2019ve all known a certifiable badass or two &hellip; <a title=\"A Well-Lived and Honorable Life\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62224\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Well-Lived and Honorable Life<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,121,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-war-stories","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62224","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}