{"id":14639,"date":"2009-09-25T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14639"},"modified":"2009-09-25T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:51:20","slug":"ok-maybe-ill-keep-my-vfw-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14639","title":{"rendered":"OK, maybe I&#8217;ll keep my VFW membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pilloried.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14643 aligncenter\" title=\"pilloried\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pilloried.jpg\" alt=\"pilloried\" width=\"180\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adirondack Patriot sent us the following story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=846181\">Albany Times-Union<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Normile said the man came into the [VFW] post&#8217;s bar last Friday night on Poplar Avenue for a drink but was turned away because he had no ID.<\/p>\n<p>Angered, the man went outside, lowered the flag which hung for a time in Iraq, and set it on fire with a cigarette lighter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The VFW members got a bit riled up themselves and went looking for the guy and finally found him on Saturday. They confronted him and gave three choices for punishment. They say he chose option three without mentioning what the first two were;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The young man, whose name was not released, was duct taped to the pole by veterans for about six hours last Sunday with a sign around his neck accusing him of being a flag burner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, apparently the members of the VFW haven&#8217;t lost their spirit and sense of what&#8217;s important, even though the national headquarters has, so I guess I&#8217;ll keep my membership to honor those comrades of mine in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfw.org\/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&#038;did=5221\">VFW website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adirondack Patriot sent us the following story from the Albany Times-Union; Normile said the man came &hellip; <a title=\"OK, maybe I&#8217;ll keep my VFW membership\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14639\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK, maybe I&#8217;ll keep my VFW membership<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}