{"id":21009,"date":"2010-07-30T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page_medal_of_honor_recipients_a_disappearing_breed\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:20:47","slug":"local_paper_front_page_medal_of_honor_recipients_a_disappearing_breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21009","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper Front Page: Medal of Honor recipients a disappearing breed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, just days after attending a kick-off ceremony for the Medal of Honor Society&#8217;s national convention, recipient Leonard Keller was killed in a Florida motorcycle accident.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Vernon Baker, 90, a soldier who belatedly received a medal for his valor during World War II, died quietly at home in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Though the deaths were months apart, they weren&#8217;t isolated. Five of their medal-wearing comrades also have died since October.<\/p>\n<p>With the Congressional Medal of Honor Society&#8217;s September convention in Charleston approaching, the reality of &#8220;old soldier&#8221; mortality is catching up. From a group of 95 less than a year ago, their numbers have dropped to 88. The youngest, Gordon Ray Roberts, is 60. The oldest is Barney F. Hajiro, 93.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/30\/beyond-valor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, just days after attending a kick-off ceremony for the Medal of Honor Society&#8217;s national convention, recipient Leonard Keller was killed in a Florida motorcycle accident. Two weeks ago, Vernon Baker, 90, a soldier who belatedly received a medal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21009\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,438,133,106,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-military-armed-forces","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}