{"id":77842,"date":"2018-02-20T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77842"},"modified":"2018-02-20T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:22:15","slug":"peter-wang-posthumously-appointed-to-west-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77842","title":{"rendered":"Peter Wang; posthumously appointed to West Point"},"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>Jim, MustangCryppie and Richard send us links to the Daily Caller which reports that the US Military Academy has posthumously appointed JROTC cadet Peter Wang who selflessly gave his life for his fellow students last week to West Point class 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">West Point will provide the family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting victim Peter Wang a letter of acceptance to West Point Class of 2025, which was his dream, and honorarium tokens. His funeral is today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kOb9P5mjdd\">pic.twitter.com\/kOb9P5mjdd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brittany Wallman (@BrittanyWallman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrittanyWallman\/status\/965948992990433280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wang\u2019s neighbor told Fox News recently his dream was to attend the U.S. military academy at West Point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/02\/20\/army-honors-jrotc-cadets-killed-in-florida-massacre\/\">Additionally<\/a>, the Army has awarded a medal to each of the cadets killed in the tragedy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps cadets killed in the Florida school massacre have been awarded medals by the US Army, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Alaina Petty, 14, was presented with the Medal of Heroism during a memorial service Monday, the Army told The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of 15-year-old Peter Wang were expected to receive the medal during his memorial service on Tuesday, while the family of Martin Duque, 14, will be given the medal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The medal recognizes JROTC cadets whose performance \u201cinvolved the acceptance of danger and extraordinary responsibilities.\u201d The Army program trains potential officers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim, MustangCryppie and Richard send us links to the Daily Caller which reports that the US &hellip; <a title=\"Peter Wang; posthumously appointed to West Point\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77842\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Wang; posthumously appointed to West Point<\/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-77842","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\/77842","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=77842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77842\/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=77842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}