{"id":65454,"date":"2016-04-26T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65454"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:32:35","slug":"sgt-kyle-stephens-and-spc-michael-knight-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65454","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Kyle Stephens and Spc. Michael Knight saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65455\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kyle-Stephens-and-Michael-Knight.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Stephens and Michael Knight\" width=\"462\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kyle-Stephens-and-Michael-Knight.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kyle-Stephens-and-Michael-Knight-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonnewsnow.com\/story\/31811535\/crash-survivor-meets-his-heroes-for-the-first-time\">Tucson News Now<\/a>, last year, Sergeant Kyle Stephens and Specialist Michael Knight, of the Nevada Army National Guard, were doing some night fishing when they heard a crash and saw a bright blue flash nearby. They ran towards the terrifying sounds and sights and pulled Ronaldo de la Ree from his burning car.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>De la Ree didn\u2019t know who saved him that day. He said he had been drinking before he got behind the wheel. He doesn\u2019t remember where he was going and couldn\u2019t remember anything leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, he learned the identities of his rescuers after reading a Nevada National Guard news release.<\/p>\n<p>De la Ree finally met his heroes in person on Monday at the Army National Guard Heliport at Pinal Air Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>De la Ree says that he has been sober since the accident, and thanks to Stephens and Knight he has that opportunity to turn his life around.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eggs for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tucson News Now, last year, Sergeant Kyle Stephens and Specialist Michael Knight, of the &hellip; <a title=\"Sgt. Kyle Stephens and Spc. Michael Knight saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65454\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sgt. Kyle Stephens and Spc. Michael Knight saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65454","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\/65454","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=65454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}