{"id":68380,"date":"2016-10-11T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68380"},"modified":"2016-10-11T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:51:43","slug":"david-p-diamond-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68380","title":{"rendered":"LTC David P. Diamond saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68381\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/David-P.-Diamond-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"David P. Diamond\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/David-P.-Diamond-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/David-P.-Diamond-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/David-P.-Diamond.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/175871\/army_officer_earns_medal_for_actions_at_boston_marathon_bombing\">a link to the story<\/a> of Lieutenant Colonel David P. Diamond ho was awarded the Soldiers Medal by Senator John McCain on Capitol Hill last month for his actions at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, when two terrorists detonated a bomb at the finish line of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond had just completed a personal best time in the marathon when the bomb detonated near by. He ran towards the sound of the blast and began treating the victims that he found there. You can read the complete account of his actions that at the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This [award] is really a reflection of my profession of arms, not of myself,&#8221; Diamond said, after receiving the medal. He serves now as legislative affairs officer within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. &#8220;I come from great stock, and great training and great leadership. It&#8217;s a culture, a family we have developed together. Those actions are really representative of what we all do in the military.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of Lieutenant Colonel David P. Diamond ho &hellip; <a title=\"LTC David P. Diamond saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LTC David P. Diamond saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68380","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\/68380","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=68380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}