{"id":1341,"date":"2007-09-24T06:14:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2007-09-24T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:46:53","slug":"sergeant-first-class-paul-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant First Class Paul Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Sorosphere&#8217;s practice of supporting the troops by publicizing the tiny thin film of atrocities commited by a tiny number of them, and parading the fraction of them that have come home to oppose the war around like they&#8217;re the only veterans that genuinely matter, a group of bloggers has worked for over a year now to publicize the life, and heroism, of one of the troops whose heroism went, in the full, awful, legal sense of the term, &#8220;above and beyond the call of duty&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/paulsmithhonor.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Smith won the Congressional Medal of Honor the same way all CMoH winners have; by committing an act of immense heroism &#8220;above and beyond the call of duty&#8221; &#8211; in other words, something that no reasonable person would expect a soldier to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Smith&#8217;s case &#8211; well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/smith\/battlescape\/index.html\">watch the presentation<\/a>.\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_R._Smith\">the account of Smith&#8217;s life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today would have been\u00a0SFC Smith&#8217;s 38th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Sorosphere&#8217;s practice of supporting the troops by publicizing the tiny thin film of atrocities commited by a tiny number of them, and parading the fraction of them that have come home to oppose the war around like they&#8217;re the only veterans that genuinely matter, a group of bloggers has worked for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}