{"id":214315,"date":"2025-10-15T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214315\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:58:08","slug":"anaheim-celebrates-navy-veteran-as-21st-duck-during-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214315\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim celebrates Navy veteran as 21st Duck during home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel \u201cDoc\u201d Jacobs led the way for the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During player introductions, the Navy veteran sledded out as the 21st Duck and joined the team on the Honda Center ice before their home opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Every season the Ducks give out the 21st Duck honor to a fan who embodies perseverance, courage, character, inspiration or makes a positive impact on their community.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Jacobs lost both of his legs during an IED attack in Iraq. He earned a Bronze Star with Valor and Purple Heart after he became the first amputee to return to a deployable infantry unit in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement from the Navy, Jacobs has run marathons, tried out for professional baseball teams and represented the U.S. in the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Ducks goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> surprised Jacobs with a video call to announce the Navy veteran\u2019s selection as the 21st Duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel \u201cDoc\u201d Jacobs led the way for the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday. During player introductions, the Navy veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}