{"id":9470,"date":"2008-11-07T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page_charleston_sc_area_soldier_killed\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T21:05:26","slug":"local_paper_front_page_charleston_sc_area_soldier_killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9470","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper Front Page: Charleston S.C. Area soldier killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was an avid sportsman who loved soccer and the outdoors. But he also loved his country. On Wednesday, he died in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Adam McKamey Wenger, 27, was the second Charleston-area soldier to have lost his life in the war on terror in about a month.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances are unclear and his family does not have many details. He had been in the Army for about eight years and leaves behind a wife and two young children.<\/p>\n<p>His older brother spoke Thursday of someone who made sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a good kid,&#8221; said David Wenger, 31. &#8220;He loved his country. He wanted to serve his country. He wanted to do his duty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/nov\/07\/mount_pleasant_soldier_killed60773\">Please let us not forget those who serve.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was an avid sportsman who loved soccer and the outdoors. But he also loved his country. On Wednesday, he died in Iraq. Adam McKamey Wenger, 27, was the second Charleston-area soldier to have lost his life in the war<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9470\">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":[39,40,54,141,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-iraq-war","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","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=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}