{"id":82387,"date":"2018-10-18T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82387"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:06","slug":"marine-veteran-80-receives-medal-of-honor-for-vietnam-bravery-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82387","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran, 80, receives Medal of Honor for Vietnam bravery | Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/marine-veteran-80-receives-medal-of-honor-for-vietnam-bravery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/694940094001_5850065239001_5850062738001-vs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a>Marine veteran John Canley, now 80 and a retired sergeant major, received the nation\u2019s highest military honor Wednesday for his \u201cconspicuous gallantry\u201d during the Vietnam War 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President Trump bestowed the award for valorous action at The White House, beginning the ceremony, saying: \u201cI like brave people, and you meet them right here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-inread-1x1\" class=\"ad gpt ad-h-1\" data-ad-pos=\"inread\" data-ad-size=\"1x1\" data-google-query-id=\"CN32rbL3jt4CFR5mwQodrRcF0Q\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"1x1\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/us_1__container__\">He introduced Canley to a standing ovation, noting he \u201cfought with unmatched bravery in one of the longest, and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump noted the utmost respect Canley\u2019s fellow warriors have for him, quoting John Ligato, a Marine and FBI agent, who attended the ceremony: \u201c\u2018We followed him because he was a true leader, he was totally fearless. He loved his Marines, and we loved him back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that Canley still goes to the gym, and his fellow Marines call him a Marine Warrior, \u201cwho is bigger than life and beyond the reach of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 80%; height: 80%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSn6ZgZ8Qcw?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/marine-veteran-80-receives-medal-of-honor-for-vietnam-bravery\">Marine veteran, 80, receives Medal of Honor for Vietnam bravery | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine veteran John Canley, now 80 and a retired sergeant major, received the nation\u2019s highest military &hellip; <a title=\"Marine veteran, 80, receives Medal of Honor for Vietnam bravery | Fox News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82387\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine veteran, 80, receives Medal of Honor for Vietnam bravery | Fox News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,184,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-marine-corps","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82387","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}