{"id":89605,"date":"2019-08-07T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89605"},"modified":"2019-08-07T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:31:43","slug":"cmoh-award-to-montford-point-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89605","title":{"rendered":"CGM Award to Montford Point Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/montford-point-marines-e1565194931523.jpg\" alt=\"CGM\" width=\"437\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Montford Point Marine has been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.<\/p>\n<p>The full story is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/08\/06\/94-year-old-montford-point-marine-veteran-awarded-congressional-gold-medal\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/08\/06\/94-year-old-montford-point-marine-veteran-awarded-congressional-gold-medal\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 President Harry Truman would eventually desegregate the military in 1948.<\/p>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">In 2011, then-President Barack Obama signed legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">But to date, less than 2,000 of the out of nearly 20,000 African American Marines who went trough recruit training at Montford Point from 1942 to 1949 have been identified and awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, according to Joe Geeter, a spokesman for the National\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/montfordpointmarines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montford Point\u00a0<\/a>Marine Association. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>The history of the Montford Point Marines is here:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/13\/historic-south-side-chicago-montford-point-marine-chapter-faces-closure-in-funding-crisis\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/13\/historic-south-side-chicago-montford-point-marine-chapter-faces-closure-in-funding-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are slowly slipping away from us, as age and time lengthen the distance from World War II and their service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Montford Point Marine has been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. The full story is here:\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"CGM Award to Montford Point Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89605\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CGM Award to Montford Point Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89631,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605\/revisions\/89631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}