{"id":165640,"date":"2025-01-21T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=165640"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:11:59","slug":"retired-general-mark-milleys-official-portrait-taken-down-at-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165640","title":{"rendered":"Retired General Mark Milley&#8217;s official portrait taken down at Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/milley01-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/milley01-1-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/milley01-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/milley01-1-216x333.png 216w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/milley01-1.png 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, people noticed an empty spot at a Pentagon wall where Retired General Mark Milley&#8217;s portrait hung. Milley&#8217;s portrait was among the portraits of previous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on display. Although ABC News\u00a0 didn&#8217;t get a definite response on why this occurred, recent history provides hints.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From ABC News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The portrait was unveiled on Friday, Jan. 10, at a ceremony in that hallway, with both Milley and then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin present. The portrait&#8217;s disappearance was first noted by reporters at the Pentagon who observed the empty space where the portrait hung just a few hours before. It is not clear why the portrait was removed from the hallway, but ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Milley, who was preemptively pardoned on Monday by then-President Joe Biden as part of a last-minute slate of pardons, retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2023. Appointed by Trump during is first administration in July 2018, Milley drew ire from Republican officials following the United States&#8217; military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My family and I are deeply grateful for the President&#8217;s action today,&#8221; he said. &#8220;After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights. I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been an honor and a privilege to serve our great country in uniform for over four decades, and I will continue to keep faith and loyalty to our nation and Constitution until my dying breath,&#8221; Milley added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martinez, L., Seyler, M., &amp; Dec, S. (2025, January 21). Mark Milley&#8217;s portrait removed from Pentagon hallway. <em>ABC News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mark-milleys-portrait-removed-pentagon-hallway\/story?id=117908299\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday afternoon, people noticed an empty spot at a Pentagon wall where Retired General Mark &hellip; <a title=\"Retired General Mark Milley&#8217;s official portrait taken down at Pentagon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165640\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retired General Mark Milley&#8217;s official portrait taken down at Pentagon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165640","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}