{"id":3340,"date":"2010-10-07T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:19:35","slug":"another-posthumous-medal-of-honor-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Another posthumous Medal of Honor awarded."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/medal-of-honor-awarded-to-robert-miller-green-beret-killed-in-afghanistan\/19662965?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C175779\" target=\"_self\">Sgt. Robert Miller, a Green Beret, in Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Survivors of the ambush say the 24-year-old was shot two times but continued to throw grenades and fire his weapon to help save the lives of those he fought with, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hBQuMk5VWtfpQFsX2QO7QZecs6mgD9IM2AJ80?docId=D9IM2AJ80\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Associated Press<\/a>. The situation was tense. &quot;We were fish in a barrel,&quot; Sgt. James Lodyga, Miller&#39;s commander, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/10\/06\/obama.medal.of.honor\/\" target=\"_blank\">told CNN<\/a>. &quot;Enemy on right, on the left. Robby immediately started firing.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt. Robert Miller, a Green Beret, in Afghanistan Survivors of the ambush say the 24-year-old was shot two times but continued to throw grenades and fire his weapon to help save the lives of those he fought with, according to The Associated Press. The situation was tense. &quot;We were fish in a barrel,&quot; Sgt. James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}