{"id":10859,"date":"2013-01-16T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2013-01-16T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:17:07","slug":"10859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=10859","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Romesha To Receive Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/medalofhonorarmy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10861\" title=\"medalofhonorarmy\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/medalofhonorarmy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A former active duty Army staff sergeant who lives in North Dakota and is set to receive the Medal of Honor for courageous actions in Afghanistan says he was a little star struck when President Barack Obama called about the award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton Romesha, of Minot, will receive the nation&#8217;s highest military decoration for valor at the White House on Feb. 11.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The medal is for his actions while serving as a section leader during combat operations against an armed enemy in Afghanistan&#8217;s Nuristan Province on Oct. 3, 2009.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Romesha on Wednesday declined to go into detail about the 13-hour firefight, saying it wouldn&#8217;t do justice to the great actions by so many other soldiers. He says he had a great team of guys who weren&#8217;t going to back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A former active duty Army staff sergeant who lives in North Dakota and is set to receive the Medal of Honor for courageous actions in Afghanistan says he was a little star struck when President Barack Obama called about the award. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton Romesha, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10864,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/10864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}