{"id":122823,"date":"2026-02-04T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:38:17","slug":"malliotakis-applauds-president-trumps-decision-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-staten-island-hero-michael-ollis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122823\/","title":{"rendered":"Malliotakis Applauds President Trump\u2019s Decision to Award Medal of Honor to Staten Island Hero Michael Ollis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              <a id=\"main-content\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/malliotakis.house.gov\/core\/misc\/icons\/e32700\/error.svg\" alt=\"Image removed.\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" title=\"This image has been removed. For security reasons, only images from the local domain are allowed.\" class=\"filter-image-invalid\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">(STATEN ISLAND, NY)\u00a0\u2014 Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) applauds President Trump&#8217;s decision to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u201cWe were notified by the White House that Staten Island\u2019s hometown hero, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis, has been approved for the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary act of heroism. In 2013, Staff Sergeant Ollis gave his life to save an allied soldier, and his courage, selflessness, and sacrifice represent the very best of our nation. Staff Sergeant Ollis\u2019 final act was worthy of the Medal of Honor and after years of advocacy from the American Legion, our elected officials, and the Staten Island community, we are grateful to President Donald Trump for recognizing Staff Sergeant Ollis\u2019 extraordinary heroism with our nation\u2019s highest military honor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(STATEN ISLAND, NY)\u00a0\u2014 Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) applauds President Trump&#8217;s decision to posthumously award the Medal of Honor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-122823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}