{"id":77139,"date":"2018-01-13T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77139"},"modified":"2018-01-13T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:42:12","slug":"pfc-emmanuel-mensah-gets-posthumous-soldiers-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77139","title":{"rendered":"PFC Emmanuel Mensah gets posthumous Soldiers Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76818\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Emmanuel-Mensah-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Emmanuel-Mensah-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Emmanuel-Mensah-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Emmanuel-Mensah-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Emmanuel-Mensah.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We talked about Private First Class Emmanuel Mensah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76817\">a few weeks ago<\/a> when he lost his life while rescuing folks in a burning apartment building in New York City. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2018\/01\/09\/soldier-who-died-rescuing-four-from-bronx-fire-will-receive-soldiers-medal\/\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that PFC Mensah will get the Soldiers Medal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Secretary Mark Esper approved the Soldier\u2019s Medal for Mensah on Jan. 1, a New York Army National Guard official told Army Times on background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur command recognized the appropriate nature of Pfc. Mensah&#8217;s actions and took immediate steps, as early as December 30, to capture statements regarding this young soldier\u2019s actions and worked with Army leaders to process the award submission as quickly as we could,\u201d the official said in an email. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Private First Class Emmanuel Mensah a few weeks ago when he lost his &hellip; <a title=\"PFC Emmanuel Mensah gets posthumous Soldiers Medal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77139\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PFC Emmanuel Mensah gets posthumous Soldiers Medal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139","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=77139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}