{"id":17428,"date":"2010-02-14T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2010-02-14T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T14:03:28","slug":"the-post-in-which-tah-defends-ivaws-kokesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17428","title":{"rendered":"The post in which TAH defends IVAW&#8217;s Kokesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate to do this &#8211; defending Adam Kokesh, member of IVAW and congressional candidate in New Mexico is probably my least favorite thing. But, I also hate it when people don&#8217;t tell the truth inadvertently or otherwise. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-vetscor\/2450885\/posts\">Free Republic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpatriotsagainstkokesh.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/13\/is-adam-kokesh-really-an-iraq-veteran\/\">American Patriots Against Kokesh<\/a> have a thread questioning Kokesh&#8217;s Iraq vet creds.   They both use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7296\">a copy of Kokesh&#8217;s DD214 that I posted last year<\/a>. That DD214 is one of three in his records &#8211; the last one. I posted it to prove he was not a sergeant when he was discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the amateurs didn&#8217;t come to me before they posted the DD214 and Free Republic didn&#8217;t link to me so I could help them avoid embarrassment. Here&#8217;s the DD214 that proves his service in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kokesh-dd214-iraq-service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17429\" title=\"kokesh-dd214-iraq-service\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kokesh-dd214-iraq-service.jpg\" alt=\"kokesh-dd214-iraq-service\" width=\"500\" height=\"719\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice the requisite medals in block 13, 6 months and 24 days of foreign service in block 12f. I also have the narrative for his Navy Commendation Medal for service in Fallujah. These all came as a result of POW Net&#8217;s FOIA to the records center.<\/p>\n<p>Ya know how on television they always tell you tell you not to try stuff you see at home &#8211; this is one of those things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate to do this &#8211; defending Adam Kokesh, member of IVAW and congressional candidate &hellip; <a title=\"The post in which TAH defends IVAW&#8217;s Kokesh\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17428\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The post in which TAH defends IVAW&#8217;s Kokesh<\/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":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","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=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}