{"id":106421,"date":"2025-06-26T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/06\/26\/shane-nelson\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:01:49","modified_gmt":"2027-12-13T05:01:49","slug":"shane-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/06\/26\/shane-nelson\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Shane Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Our amazing Shane P. Nelson  left us on June 18, 2025. He lost a hard fought battle to PTSD related to his military service.<br \/>\n\t  Shane was born Jan. 18, 1973, to Gail Flesch Nelson Green and Kim Leroy Nelson.  From age three, along with his older brother Shaun, Shane was raised by his stepdad,  Tom Green. He learned rural living, the operations of auto wrecking yards and mechanics. Through his experience  at the wrecking yard, Shane learned how to fix almost anything. He could Macguyver any vehicle he was in.<br \/>\n\t  Shane graduated from Wolf Point High School in 1992. After graduation, he farmed\/ ranched with his uncle Mark Nelson.<br \/>\n\t  In 1998, Shane enlisted in the United States Army. He specialized as an operating room specialist. In 1999, he completed Primary Leadership  Development and, in 2002, he completed the Medical  Specialist Course.<br \/>\n\t  SGT Shane Patrick Nelson became a combat medic and served in Operation Enduring\/  Iraqi Freedom in Kuwait. His exemplary service was honored by receipt of the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal,  Army Achievement Medal (2nd Award), National Defense  Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary  Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, NCO Professional Development  Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon and Army Good Conduct  Medal.<br \/>\n\t  In September of 2006, Shane was honorably discharged from the United States Army.<br \/>\n\t  Shane went to Seattle, Wash., to live with his brother  after his military service. Shane and his brother completed the 2007 Ironman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106567,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106421\/revisions\/106567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106421"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=106421"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=106421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}