{"id":150068,"date":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:43:09","slug":"staten-island-soldier-who-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-receives-presidential-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150068\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice receives presidential Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A Staten Island resident who courageously gave up his life to save a fellow soldier during the War in Afghanistan was given the military Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump posthumously presented the award to Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis during a special ceremony on March 2. Ollis was recognized for the valor he bravely demonstrated as an infantryman during combat at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/ollis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/ollis\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772568190169000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2s_ROOSWjmWOX1UI5qgDA4\">Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan,<\/a>\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/staten-island-soldier-receives-presidential-medal-of-honor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tStaten Island soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice receives presidential Medal of Honor &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A Staten Island resident who courageously gave up his life to save a fellow soldier during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[53580,9,24,12,63,62820,62821,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-150068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-soldier","tag-staff-sgt-michael-h-ollis","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150068","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=150068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}