{"id":390639,"date":"2026-09-04T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390639\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:58:17","slug":"jacksonville-honors-medal-of-honor-recipient-maj-james-capers-jr-on-his-89th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/390639\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville honors Medal of Honor recipient Maj. James Capers Jr. on his 89th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 Members of the Jacksonville community recently gathered to celebrate the 89th birthday of Major James Capers Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Capers is a retired U.S. Marine Corps major and Medal of Honor recipient.<\/p>\n<p>He received the nation\u2019s highest military award in June for his actions during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Capers led a nine-man reconnaissance team during a 1967 mission in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>He continued leading his Marines after suffering severe injuries during an enemy ambush.<\/p>\n<p>All members of his team were evacuated safely.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army of Jacksonville said Capers has also supported its Bucket Brigade programming over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The organization said it was honored to join community members at Capers\u2019 home for the celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 Members of the Jacksonville community recently gathered to celebrate the 89th birthday of Major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-390639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}