{"id":70167,"date":"2017-02-07T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70167"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:00:44","slug":"okinawa-hero-keith-harrer-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70167","title":{"rendered":"Okinawa Hero Keith Harrer Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jonn loves to give me grief about the information I get from obituaries. So it’s only appropriate that my first replacement post comes from an obituary. In fairness, I don’t seek them out. I go where my keywords take me.<\/p>\n

Today’s keywords drew to me to the news that a hero from Okinawa passed away on January 27th.\u00a0 Keith Harrer earned the Silver Star and Navy Cross in two amazing actions spaced apart by only 36 days. A portion of his Navy Cross cross citation reads that “Steadfastly refusing to leave his post for evacuation, he continued to man his gun and, after twice repulsing enemy attempts to put the machine gun back in operation, finally succeeded in destroying the crew as well as the gun itself. ”<\/p>\n

You can read both of his citations at the Hall of Valor website.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/valor.militarytimes.com\/recipient.php?recipientid=8301<\/p>\n

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Jonn loves to give me grief about the information I get from obituaries. So it’s only … Okinawa Hero Keith Harrer Passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167","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\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}