{"id":74192,"date":"2017-08-25T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74192"},"modified":"2017-08-24T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:52:20","slug":"james-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74192","title":{"rendered":"James Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74193\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74193\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/kansascity\/obituary.aspx?pid=186150203\">James Ring<\/a>, who passed away on July 18, 2017. His obituary read;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After graduating from Rosedale High School in KCK, Jim enlisted in the USMC where he proudly served his country during the Korean Conflict and the Viet Nam War, earning a Navy Congressional Medal of Honor. He rose through the ranks and retired as a Master Sargent in 1979. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A search of the Medal of Honor awardees failed to turn up his name, so we got his records;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74194\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-AA-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-AA-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-AA-260x333.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-AA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-1-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-1-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-1-272x333.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-1.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74196\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-2-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-2-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-2-260x333.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-2.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74197\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-3-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-3-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-3-281x333.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-3.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74198\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-4-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-4-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-4-265x333.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-4.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74199\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-5-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-5-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-5-261x333.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-5.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74200\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-6-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-6-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-6-259x333.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-6.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74201\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-7-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-7-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-7-272x333.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/James-Ring-FOIA-Assignments-7.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t join the Marine Corps until 1956, so he missed the Korean War by three years. He went to Vietnam in 1967 and again in 1970, he earned a Combat Action Ribbon, but no Medal of Honor. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m chalking this up to family confusion, I&#8217;m pretty sure that a Master Sergeant with twenty years of honorable service wouldn&#8217;t leave his family to clean up this mess. So I&#8217;m not calling this stolen valor, we&#8217;re correcting the historical record. I wish only the best for the grieving family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this James Ring, who passed away on July 18, 2017. &hellip; <a title=\"James Ring\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74192\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Ring<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74192","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=74192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}