{"id":79081,"date":"2018-04-26T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79081"},"modified":"2018-04-26T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:09:35","slug":"lt-philip-h-sauer-posthumous-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79081","title":{"rendered":"LT Philip H. Sauer; posthumous Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79082\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Philip-H.-Sauer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Philip-H.-Sauer.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Philip-H.-Sauer-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kusi.com\/coronado-based-vietnam-veteran-receives-silver-star-posthumously\/\">KUSI<\/a> tells the story of Marine LT Philip H. Sauer who was killed in Vietnam 51 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1967, then 25-year-old First Lieutenant Sauer was leading a group of four other marines up a hill to get a better vantage point when he was ambushed by a larger North Vietnamese army unit. He told the other Marines to run as he stayed back and fired at the other unit with only a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Sauer and three of the other Marines died that day&#8230;Between the day Sauer died and today, his story was essentially forgotten until roughly two years ago when Sauer\u2019s brother Tom ran into a man named Lieutenant David Little while surfing in La Jolla Cove.<\/p>\n<p>The two discussed Sauer\u2019s bravery and then began working to have him properly recognized and remembered as the American hero he was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week their efforts came to fruition and LT Sauer was awarded the Silver Star and his headstone will be altered to reflect this latest honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUSI tells the story of Marine LT Philip H. Sauer who was killed in Vietnam 51 &hellip; <a title=\"LT Philip H. Sauer; posthumous Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79081\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LT Philip H. Sauer; posthumous Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79081","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=79081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}