{"id":77827,"date":"2018-02-19T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77827"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:40:19","slug":"classmates-want-military-funeral-for-peter-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77827","title":{"rendered":"Classmates want military funeral for Peter Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Peter-Wang-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Peter-Wang-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Peter-Wang-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Peter-Wang-456x333.jpg 456w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Peter-Wang.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/pals-military-burial-hero-killed-fla-school-shooting-article-1.3828908\">New York Daily<\/a> News reports that JROTC cadet Peter Wang&#8217;s classmates are lobbying for a military funeral for him. They say that he held the door open for them to escape the gunfire in the Broward County, Florida Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week. He saved many lives while losing his own in the conflagration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Jesse Pan, 34&#8230;said Wang\u2019s parents, Hui Wang and Kongfeng Wang, moved to Parkland a year-and-a-half ago because he wanted to join the school\u2019s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to be a role model for his younger brothers ages 13, 11 and 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is really sad because they moved here because of the school. He told them he wanted to join the Army and attend West Point in the future. He wanted to learn leadership skills and improve his character. He changed a lot when he joined. He started helping people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter, the son of Chinese immigrants who moved from Brooklyn, deserves a military-style funeral because he died saving his friends\u2019 lives, Pan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis parents told me he was holding the door to help them escape. He took bullets for them. His body had so much damage. He was shot in the chest, arms and brain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News reports that JROTC cadet Peter Wang&#8217;s classmates are lobbying for a &hellip; <a title=\"Classmates want military funeral for Peter Wang\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77827\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classmates want military funeral for Peter Wang<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77827","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=77827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}