{"id":16020,"date":"2016-07-19T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2016-07-20T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:38:36","slug":"this-ceremony-is-worth-watching-over-and-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16020","title":{"rendered":"This ceremony is worth watching &#8230; over and over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama Presents the Medal of Honor\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhZLnSEVFPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama took a few minutes out of his busy day this week to hang a medal around the neck of an 86-year-old hero.<\/p>\n<p>The hero&#8217;s name is Charles Kettles. Nearly 50 years ago &#8212; yes, 50 years &#8212; Kettles found himself in the middle of an intense fire fight in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Kettles, an Army pilot,\u00a0already had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his effort to rescue his fellow soldiers, flying them out of the landing zone to safety.<\/p>\n<p>But someone in Ypsilanti, Mich., where Kettles lives, heard about the story and worked for five years to ensure that Kettles received the nation&#8217;s highest military award, the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>This video tells the story. It&#8217;s moving. It speaks to one man&#8217;s humility, which as I&#8217;ve long believed speaks to the fundamental character that all true heroes share.<\/p>\n<p>The event also enables us, as the president noted, to honor the &#8220;basic goodness&#8221; of Americans. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a tough couple of weeks,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it has &#8230; which helps make\u00a0this presentation so meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lt. Col. Kettles.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama took a few minutes out of his busy day this week to hang a medal around the neck of an 86-year-old hero. The hero&#8217;s name is Charles Kettles. Nearly 50 years ago &#8212; yes, 50 years &#8212; Kettles found himself in the middle of an intense fire fight in Vietnam. Kettles, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This ceremony is worth watching &#8230; over and over<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[540,2977,5041,5116],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-us-army","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16027,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}