{"id":15409,"date":"2009-11-17T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:27:42","slug":"nbc-nightly-news-millett-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/17\/nbc-nightly-news-millett-49\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Nightly News recalls Medal of Honor winner Lewis Millett &#8217;49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/11\/lewis-millett-osan-bates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/11\/lewis-millett-osan-bates-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"In October 1975 at Osan Air Base in Korea, retired U.S. Army Col. Lewis Millett '49 attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the bayonet charge he led at Hill 180, now part of the air base.\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On his Nov. 16 telecast, <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em> host Brian Williams, L.H.D. &#8217;05 remembers retired U.S. Army Col. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Millett\">Lewis Millett &#8217;49<\/a>, a Medal of Honor winner who died Nov. 14, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/19\/us\/19millett.html\">The New York Times<\/a> follows with its obituary two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Millett served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, earning the Medal of Honor in 1951 for leading the last major bayonet charge in Army history, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwva.org\/pow_mia\/p_060314_hill_180.htm\">battle of Hill 180<\/a> in Korea. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/node\/492679\/\">Sun Journal story<\/a> also recalls Millett&#8217;s military achievements and his family roots in nearby Mechanic Falls. In 1949, shortly before graduating from Bates, Millett was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/military-history-interview-with-colonel-lewis-l-millett.htm\/3\">called back to the Army,<\/a> later earning his degree from Park College, now Park University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032619\/#33977115\">View video from<em> NBC Nightly News<\/em>, Nov. 16, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his Nov. 16 telecast, NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams, L.H.D.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,31,220,11009],"tags":[11051,10830],"class_list":["post-15409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-lewiston-auburn","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions\/144957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}