{"id":4797,"date":"2011-03-11T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:53:09","slug":"heroic-marine-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/heroic-marine-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Marine honored"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was honored to be able to speak to Lance Cpl. Carpenter Wednesday afternoon
\n (The State) Gilbert man severely injured in Afghanistan By JEFF WILKINSON<\/a>
\nMarine Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, his face missing an eye and crisscrossed with deep scars, stood on the floor of the S.C. Senate on Wednesday to receive the thanks of his state.<\/p>\n

Carpenter, 21, of Gilbert lost the eye, most of his teeth and use of his right arm from a grenade blast Nov. 21 near Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Friends and family say he threw himself in front of the grenade to protect his best friend in Afghanistan, Cpl. Nick Eufrazio.<\/p>\n

Carpenter just remembers seeing the grenade. Then a white flash. Then a fellow Marine telling him he would be fine.<\/p>\n

Then, four weeks later, he woke up in a hospital in Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second I woke up, I saw my family by my bedside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Senate resolution noted Carpenter \u201csuffered catastrophic wounds in the cause of freedom\u201d and \u201chas shown himself worthy of the name Marine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carpenter shook almost every senator\u2019s hand \u2014 with his left hand \u2014 after the reading. full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was honored to be able to speak to Lance Cpl. Carpenter Wednesday afternoon (The State) Gilbert man severely injured in Afghanistan By JEFF WILKINSON Marine Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, his face missing an eye and crisscrossed with deep scars, stood on the floor of the S.C. Senate on Wednesday to receive the thanks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-1fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}