{"id":72699,"date":"2017-06-12T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72699"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:30:26","slug":"joseph-keppard-army-veteran-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72699","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Keppard, Army veteran, saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Good-Samaritans-save-teens-from-car-crash-in-SF-11212387.php?cmpid=fb-desktop\">SF Gate<\/a> reports that a Nissan Sentra driver was speeding along Monarch Bay Drive when the driver hit the curb which sent the car upside down into the water. 53-year-old Joseph Keppard, a ten-year Army veteran, was meditating nearby when he saw the accident occur. He stripped of his shoes and dove into the water and pulled the pair out of the water;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn my opinion, looking at the tides and the currents and how deep the water was, they easily saved those teens\u2019 lives,\u201d said San Leandro police Lt. Ted Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Keppard, who is 6 feet 4, said the car landed in deep water. He spent several minutes in the bay, searching in the dark for the teenagers and then pulling them out. At one point, others on the scene said there was a third person in the car, so Keppard dove down into the wreckage feeling in the darkness for another body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water was up to my eyes, and you could feel the current pulling,\u201d said Keppard, who served a decade in the Army. \u201cThe whitecaps were going pretty good. I didn\u2019t have time to think about myself. I just wanted to get those guys out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Keppard, who frequently works out and meditates at the marina, said that the people he rescued didn\u2019t thank him, but he didn\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t even focused on any of that \u2014 it was more so about the lives,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were kids \u2014 I\u2019m tired of hearing about kids dying. Me being a minister, I do too many funerals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Gate reports that a Nissan Sentra driver was speeding along Monarch Bay Drive when the &hellip; <a title=\"Joseph Keppard, Army veteran, saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72699\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joseph Keppard, Army veteran, saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699","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=72699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}