{"id":78340,"date":"2018-03-19T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78340"},"modified":"2018-03-19T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T14:22:54","slug":"woody-williams-salutes-guardian-angel-charles-g-fischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78340","title":{"rendered":"“Woody” Williams salutes “guardian angel” Charles G. Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve talked a few times about 94-year-old Herschel “Woody” Williams<\/a>, the last surviving Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient – the last of twenty-seven men who were awarded that medal for that battle. Williams has never taken full credit for his actions on February 23, 1945, instead he credits the marksman he calls his “guardian angels”, who provided cover for him while he charged across an airstrip with a flame thrower, eliminating the threats to his fellow Marines from Japanese pillboxes.<\/p>\n

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that he stopped by the grave of one of his “guardian angels”, Charles G. Fischer when he was in Hawaii last week;<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Williams, with the Medal of Honor hanging around his neck, stood over the Hawaii grave of Charles Fischer, one of those \u201cguardian angels\u201d who helped him survive that day and is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, nicknamed the Punchbowl.<\/p>\n

He saluted the Marine, who died a private first class that day, and then slowly bent down and placed a purple lei upon his headstone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always said I\u2019m just the caretaker of it,\u201d Williams said later of the Medal of Honor. \u201cIt belongs to them. They sacrificed for it. I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Williams is also the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient in West Virginia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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