{"id":87137,"date":"2019-05-18T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87137"},"modified":"2019-05-18T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:36:04","slug":"nations-oldest-medal-of-honor-recipient-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87137","title":{"rendered":"Nation&#8217;s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Robert-Maxwell-AP2-e1558185509349.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Maxwell\" \/><br \/>\nRobert Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>11B-Mailclerk brings us the sad news that Robert Maxwell, a WWII veteran, has died. Maxwell, at the time a 24-year-old communication platoon lineman, dove on a German grenade, saving the lives of a battalion commander and several other soldiers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was a very humble, quiet person,\u201d close friend Dick Tobiason told the Bend Bulletin. \u201cHe smiled whenever he talked about veterans, the flag, country, and patriotism. He loved being an American.\u201d Tobiason said his friend died of natural causes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robert-maxwell-e1558185420140.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Maxwell \" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maxwell and six to eight other members of his platoon were jammed in a small courtyard defending a battalion observation post in a house near Besancon, France, when the Germans launched a heavy attack.<\/p>\n<p>A low wall protected them against machine-gun fire but the Germans worked their way to within 10 yards of the group and began hurling grenades, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell was also awarded two Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star while serving as a communication specialist with the 7th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another of the Greatest Generation passes. Fair winds and following seas, Specialist Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the story may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nations-oldest-medal-of-honor-recipient-who-fell-on-german-grenade-dies-at-98\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Maxwell 11B-Mailclerk brings us the sad news that Robert Maxwell, a WWII veteran, has died. &hellip; <a title=\"Nation&#8217;s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87137\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nation&#8217;s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,406,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-guest-link","category-the-warrior-code","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87251,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137\/revisions\/87251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}