{"id":1509,"date":"2018-08-24T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:53:44","slug":"john-chapman-medal-of-honor-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"John Chapman, Medal of Honor winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3658935200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John-chapman2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3658935200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3658935200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"John-chapman2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hit the link. This is an amazing story. President Trump awarded the MOH to his family a couple of days ago. It was for action in Afghanistan in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2018\/08\/22\/new-details-reveal-airman-john-chapmans-heroism-roberts-ridge.html\">New Details Reveal Airman John Chapman&#39;s Heroism at Roberts Ridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Shot several times already, Chapman attempted to halt the al-Qaida forces&#39; assault on an incoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/equipment\/mh-47-chinook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MH-47 Chinook<\/a> helicopter carrying U.S. special operators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He no longer had the cover of night, and exposed himself to the enemy as he ran. Dashing out to the ridge line in five-foot-deep snow, Chapman fired at the enemy fighters who were loading rocket-propelled grenades, helping additional American forces to enter the landing zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It would be his final bold act before two shots from a large-caliber machine gun cut through his torso, one destroying his aorta and killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But this, Chapman&#39;s final fight, occurred well after the special tactics airman had already been presumed dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit the link. This is an amazing story. President Trump awarded the MOH to his family a couple of days ago. It was for action in Afghanistan in 2002. New Details Reveal Airman John Chapman&#39;s Heroism at Roberts Ridge Shot several times already, Chapman attempted to halt the al-Qaida forces&#39; assault on an incoming MH-47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}