{"id":33086,"date":"2023-01-19T04:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=33086"},"modified":"2023-01-19T04:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T09:46:24","slug":"97-year-old-vet-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/01\/97-year-old-vet-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"97 Year Old Vet Honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/newsletters\/veterans-news\/2023-01-14\/hero-korean-war-navy-cross-8759693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>97-year-old veteran<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0near San Diego is finally being awarded the Navy Cross.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the second-highest award for valor you can get, after the Medal of Honor.\u00a0 He was a pilot in Korea, and was in a crazy dogfight in 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He took on seven enemy planes on his own, and shot down four of them.\u00a0 When he landed, there were 263 bullet holes in his plane, but he wasn&#8217;t hurt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the details were classified, so that&#8217;s why he never got a medal until now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He went on to serve another 23 years, and did over 100 flight missions in Vietnam.\u00a0 The medal ceremony is this Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 03:22:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/01\/97-year-old-vet-honoured\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33087,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086\/revisions\/33087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}