{"id":73134,"date":"2017-06-30T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73134"},"modified":"2017-06-30T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:54:56","slug":"james-farmer-army-vet-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73134","title":{"rendered":"James Farmer, Army vet, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer-500x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-73135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer-500x250.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/james-farmer.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of our ninjas send us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc2news.com\/news\/national\/army-vet-beaten-to-death-after-saving-two-teens\">a link to the story <\/a>of 62-year-old James Farmer, Junior, an Army veteran who was living out of his car in Denver, Colorado in order to send money to his family in Seattle with plans to move back in September and get on with his life. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, he heard a ruckus and saw a homeless man, 28-year-old DeJuan Stamps, beating up two teenagers, so Farmer interceded. Stamps turned his attention from the teens to Farmer and proceeded to beat him to death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the victims, 18-year-old Aidan Brown, was left unconscious and had to get staples in his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He surely would&#8217;ve died had (Farmer) not intervened,&#8221; Wes Brown, Aidan&#8217;s father, told CNN affiliate KMGH.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police arrived to find Stamps still kicking and striking Farmer&#8217;s lifeless body.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stamps rushed the officers and injured one before he was subdued. He&#8217;s facing multiple charges, including one count of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Farmer&#8217;s family told the media;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His time in the service, his family says, never left him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He took a oath when he joined the United States Army and promised never to leave a man behind &#8230; He heard someone in need and risked his life to save (the) lives of those teenagers,&#8221; they told CNN affiliate KDVR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/local\/denver-teens-honor-the-homeless-man-who-died-saving-their-lives\/452568960\">9News<\/a>, a memorial was held for Farmer and the teens he rescued were there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two teens Farmer rescued were among Tuesday morning&#8217;s crowd. Mave Murphy and Aidan Brown will never get to meet the man who saved their lives, but they&#8217;ll never forget his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would thank him for performing such a selfless act for someone who he never met before,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;That&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve never experienced on such a close scale before so it was really moving.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s dad, David, said Farmer&#8217;s actions are something his son should never forget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he sees somebody else in trouble, I hope that he would help them because of the gift that he received,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our ninjas send us a link to the story of 62-year-old James Farmer, Junior, &hellip; <a title=\"James Farmer, Army vet, passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73134\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Farmer, Army vet, passes<\/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-73134","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\/73134","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=73134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}