{"id":38011,"date":"2013-10-16T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38011"},"modified":"2013-10-16T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:23:05","slug":"purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38011","title":{"rendered":"Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/10\/16\/army-ranger-believed-to-be-unconscious-salutes-during-purple-heart-ceremony\/\" title=\"Purple Heart\">Fox news <\/a>come the story of an injured Army Ranger thought to be unconscious rendering a salute during his Purple Heart ceremony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I cannot impart on you the level of emotion that poured through the intensive care unit that day,&#8221; the commander wrote to the Ranger&#8217;s wife. &#8220;Grown men began to weep, and we were speechless at a gesture that speaks volumes about Josh&#8217;s courage and character.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=38012\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101613_ff_salute_640-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"101613_ff_salute_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101613_ff_salute_640.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101613_ff_salute_640.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101613_ff_salute_640.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WARNING:  Make sure the office door is closed when reading this&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>  Full transcript of the letter Josh&#8217;s Commander sent to his wife is over at <a href=\"http:\/\/guardianofvalor.com\/salute-seen-around-world-wounded-ranger-salutes-commander-despite-injuries\/\" title=\"Ranger\">Guardians of Valor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox news come the story of an injured Army Ranger thought to be unconscious rendering a salute during his Purple Heart ceremony. &#8220;I cannot impart on you the level of emotion that poured through the intensive care unit that day,&#8221; the commander wrote to the Ranger&#8217;s wife. &#8220;Grown men began to weep, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,130,74,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-real-soldiers","category-the-warrior-code","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9T5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}