{"id":15687,"date":"2009-11-19T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2009-11-19T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T17:18:37","slug":"purple-heart-for-fort-hood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15687","title":{"rendered":"Purple Heart for Fort Hood Victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that Representative John Carter of Texas, the Congressman of the Fort Hood district has introduced a bill to Congress which would award the Purple Heart to the victims of Major Hasan’s shooting spree a few weeks ago. The bill reads;<\/p>\n

For purposes of the laws specified below, a member of the Armed Forces or civilian employee of the Department of Defense who was killed or wounded by gunfire in the shootings that occurred at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, shall be deemed\u2014<\/p>\n

(1) in the case of a member, to have been killed or wounded in a combat zone as the result of an act of an enemy of the United States; and<\/p>\n

(2) in the case of a civilian employee of the Department of Defense, to have been killed or wounded while serving with the Armed Forces in a contingency operation or to have been killed or wounded in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

Covered Laws<\/p>\n

1) Would make the military service members injured by gunfire on November 5, 2009 eligible for the award of the Purple Heart (Executive Order 11016).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, some guy named MOTHAX at The Burn Pit<\/a> has too much time on his hands and explored the legal issues involved in honoring those casualties. I personally believe that they should be awarded the Purple Heart because it’s becoming more clear with every moment that the shooting was related to the war on terror.<\/p>\n

However, it is my considered opinion that Representative Carter should include Privates William Long and Quinton Ezeagwula who were victims of a similar crime outside of a Little Rock recruiting station on June 1st in his bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have heard that Representative John Carter of Texas, the Congressman of the Fort Hood … Purple Heart for Fort Hood Victims?<\/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":[15,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","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=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}