{"id":4626,"date":"2016-07-04T18:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/honoring-the-real-heroes-at-fort-bragg\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:48:22","slug":"honoring-the-real-heroes-at-fort-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/honoring-the-real-heroes-at-fort-bragg\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Real Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col. Kenneth Dwyer \u201998 is a Special Forces officer who has been awarded the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat. He lost his left hand and left eye during a firefight in the Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan but he has kept moving forward, having been deployed back to Afghanistan, jumping out of airplanes while wearing a prosthetic left arm and making sure he can play a game of catch with his son.<\/p>\n<p>When Major League Baseball&#8217;s Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins played a July 3 game at the\u00a012,500-seat stadium on Fort Bragg, they did so to honor service members like Lt. Col. Dwyer. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/187125412\/lt-col-kenneth-dwyer-jon-paul-morosi-talk\">MLB.com<\/a><\/strong> profiled Dwyer, his wife, Jennie \u201997 and\u00a0their family\u00a0before the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col. Kenneth Dwyer \u201998 is a Special Forces officer who has been awarded the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat. He lost his left hand and left eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}