{"id":7624,"date":"2020-06-13T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/empty-chair-honors-fallen-cadet-at-west-point-graduation\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:54:00","slug":"empty-chair-honors-fallen-cadet-at-west-point-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/empty-chair-honors-fallen-cadet-at-west-point-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Empty chair honors fallen cadet at West Point graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Empty chair honors fallen cadet at West Point graduation<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        June 13, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 3:54pm         <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An empty chair sits among the other graduating cadets holding a portrait of U.S. Military Academy cadet Christopher James Morgan\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/empty-chair.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>An empty chair sits among the other graduating cadets holding a portrait of U.S. Military Academy cadet Christopher James Morgan.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>REUTERS\/Jonathan Ernst<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                        The US Military Academy paid a touching tribute to fallen cadet Christopher \u201cC.J.\u201d Morgan Saturday at what would have been his commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>A white folding chair in the front row was set aside for the 22-year-old wrestling standout who was killed in a training exercise in 2019. A framed photo of the young man in parade dress rested on the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cC.J. was an outstanding cadet athlete, an exemplar of West Point values,\u201d said Lt. Gen. Daryl A. Williams, the academy\u2019s superintendent. \u201cWe miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump added to the accolades in his speech to the graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we remember an extraordinary cadet who made the supreme sacrifice in an accident last year: C.J. Morgan,\u201d Trump said. \u201cC.J. was something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cadet\u2019s father Christopher, a Secret Service agent, was present for the ceremony, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tough guy. Great guy. Great son, who is looking down right now,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Morgan once served on President Bill Clinton\u2019s protective detail, and Clinton spoke at the slain cadet\u2019s funeral last June.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/13\/empty-chair-honors-fallen-cadet-at-west-point-graduation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Empty chair honors fallen cadet at West Point graduation&#8221; June 13, 2020 | 3:54pm Enlarge Image An empty chair sits among the other graduating cadets holding a portrait of U.S. Military Academy cadet Christopher James Morgan. REUTERS\/Jonathan Ernst The US Military Academy paid a touching tribute to fallen cadet Christopher \u201cC.J.\u201d Morgan Saturday at what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15554],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-empty-chair-honors-fallen-cadet-at-west-point-graduation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}