{"id":9304,"date":"2009-03-31T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2009-03-31T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:59:11","slug":"cpl-jonathon-ayers-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9304","title":{"rendered":"CPL Jonathan Ayers tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, there was a ceremony for awarding a Silver Star posthumously to 173rd paratrooper Corporal Jonathan Ayers this weekend in his hometown, Snellville, GA. Uncle Jimbo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2009\/03\/cpl-ayers-silver-star-memorial-celebration.html\">Blackfive<\/a> was there to capture the ceremony on video including the breifing Ayers&#8217; company commander gives on Ayers&#8217; part in the battle of Wanat where he lost his life.<\/p>\n<p>Jimbo is one versatile guy &#8211; last weekend with TSO and me surrounded by ANSWER moonbats, and this weekend surrounded by heroes. I recognize at least one of the paratroopers on stage from our Silver Spring adventure last summer with Jimbo, concretebob and tankerbabe.<\/p>\n<p>McQ, also from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2009\/03\/honoring-cpl-jonathan-ayers.html\">Blackfive<\/a>, was there as well and writes his account. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting to hear from tankerbabe who was there, as well. She has a video at her place <a href=\"http:\/\/tankerbabelc985.vox.com\/library\/post\/an-incredibly-moving-memorial-video-of-cpl-jonathan-ayers.html\">From Cow Pastures to Kosovo<\/a>, of the tribute to CPL Ayers that his own high school enacted. I sure wish I lived in a town like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, there was a ceremony for awarding a Silver Star posthumously to &hellip; <a title=\"CPL Jonathan Ayers tribute\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9304\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CPL Jonathan Ayers tribute<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","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=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}