{"id":2578,"date":"2012-04-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2012-04-06T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:21:21","slug":"2012-04-09-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/04\/2012-04-09-hero.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Peshmerga Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2012\/04\/peshmerga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2596\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/04\/peshmerga-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Military Heroes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Two Peshmerga Soldiers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo, commanding general of 3rd Infantry Division and Task Force Marne, attended a memorial ceremony at Camp Zaytun in Erbil, Iraq in 2010 to honor the memories of two Peshmerga soldiers. The general presented their families with the Army Commendation Medal for Valor for the soldiers losing their lives in the process of preventing the destruction of a combined checkpoint by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED).<\/p>\n<p>For the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/53124\/fallen-peshmerga-warriors-honored-during-memorial-service#.T340ZNWS2FA\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provided courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/\"><strong>dvids<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Heroes Two Peshmerga Soldiers Maj. Gen. 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The general presented their families with the Army Commendation Medal for Valor for the soldiers losing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Peshmerga Soldiers - America in Uniform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/04\/2012-04-09-hero.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Peshmerga Soldiers - America in Uniform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Military Heroes Two Peshmerga Soldiers Maj. 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