{"id":13722,"date":"2020-11-17T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/the-carroll-county-news-leader-salutes-the-veterans-of-carroll-county\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:25:38","slug":"the-carroll-county-news-leader-salutes-the-veterans-of-carroll-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/the-carroll-county-news-leader-salutes-the-veterans-of-carroll-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carroll County News Leader Salutes the veterans of Carroll County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Taken from the Jeffersonian Democrat, Brookville, Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Retired Air Force Colonel James C. Harding of Huntingdon was recently honored in his hometown of Brookville, Pennsylvania by Brookville High School from which he graduated in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He spent time at the high school where he made three different speeches: one each to the junior and senior classes along with a short address to the Raiders football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the football game, Harding served as the honorary captain and attended special ceremonies before the coin toss at mid field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harding, 86, is the 25th<\/sup> most decorated soldier in the United States in military history, according to the military website veterantributes.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is a member of the recently announced Brookville Area High School Hall of Fame Class of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a short documentary, a History Channel production available on youtube.com \u2013 on one of Harding’s dozens of rescue operations in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His primary message to the students in both speeches \u2013 Find something you love to do for a living and you’ll never feel like it’s work. And live with integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEarning money is not the ultimate of what the job is for. Yes, it’s great to have money to do what you want to do, but it’s so important that you enjoy what you do because you’re going to do a better job of it,\u201d Harding told the seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After his combat days were over, he spent time in the Air Force’s ROTC program as a teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n