{"id":129,"date":"2011-12-24T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=129"},"modified":"2014-08-14T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:38:14","slug":"freedom-awardwinners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Award winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/scans\/Miscellaneous_-_Blue_Folder\/Award_001.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/default_thm.jpg\" alt=\"Click to see original image\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>N. LaVerl Christensen was awarded today the America&#8217;s Freedom Award, the highest of 9 honors given by the Freedom Awards Committee. The announcement was\u00a0made by Howard Ruff, M.C. at the luncheon held at the newly remodeled Sil&#8217;s Ivy Tower restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Christensen, editor emeritus of The Daily Herald, has been called Utah County&#8217;s Senior Patriot, recognized\u00a0for his stimulating and thought-provoking editorials, patriotic speeches, and service projects. It is said that he always looks at both sides of every issue, but that there are no two sides to his patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>As editor of The Daily Herald, he received a prestigious American Legion award in 1981\u00a0for a series of articles he wrote during the Honor America period. The series was carried in many of the 30 Scripps League newspapers and won him praise throughout\u00a0the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his integrity,\u00a0honor, and\u00a0good deeds, Mr. Christensen is loved throughout Provo, where he has lived for 50 years. Provo is his city, and he loves it-just as he loves his country. He praises Provo and writes about it,\u00a0as exemplified\u00a0in his recent book entitled Provo&#8217;s Two Tabernacles.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many awards Mr. Christensen has received are the two George Washington Honor Medals, presented by the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge,\u00a0and the Good Citizenship\u00a0Medal of the Sons of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N. LaVerl Christensen was awarded today the America&#8217;s Freedom Award, the highest of 9 honors given by the Freedom Awards Committee. The announcement was\u00a0made by Howard Ruff, M.C. at the luncheon held at the newly remodeled Sil&#8217;s Ivy Tower restaurant. Mr. Christensen, editor emeritus of The Daily Herald, has been called Utah County&#8217;s Senior Patriot,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom Award winners announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}