{"id":18500,"date":"2010-04-09T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18500"},"modified":"2010-04-10T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:58:19","slug":"why-we-have-no-pitty-for-phoney-soliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18500","title":{"rendered":"Why we have no pity for Phony Soldiers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Medals don&#8217;t make the hero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is what a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/mccarter\/2010\/03\/medals_dont_make_the_hero.html\">blog post<\/a> by a author named  Mark McCarter.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about a Marine by the name Greg Suedmeyer <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/mccarter\/2010\/03\/medals_dont_make_the_hero.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.al.com\/mccarter\/photo\/suedmeyerjpg-91a4954de4e6628b_medium.jpg\" title=\"Greg Suedmeyer and wife Katelyn\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"240\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He did a tour in Iraq. When he got back to the states, he was at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was headed home to Huntsville from there last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Saturday evening, because a 71-year-old man was inexplicably going the wrong way on I-20 outside Atlanta, Suedmeyer was killed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the life lesson for us all on the fragility of it all, the &#8220;you never know&#8221; that sobers us all. You sign up to be a Marine, you get sent to Iraq, the odds slide against you. Bombs, rockets, insane insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Then you lose your life on a Georgia freeway because somebody is driving the wrong way. Your wife is at your side. Your dog is in the back seat. It&#8217;s not supposed to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/breaking\/2010\/03\/dishonorably_discharged_army_v.html\">Skyler Tarquin Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He claimed that he had several awards to include two Purple Hearts. But seems he went AWOL before his unit deployed.<\/p>\n<p>But here is the real reason that caused me to write this post. Also the caption for this next photo is so perfect that I cannot say anything better. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/images\/IMG_0789.JPG\" title=\"Pfc. Adam Bates receive the Purple Heart Award\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"501\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhy do we expose frauds and phonies? <\/p>\n<p>Take a good look at this picture and then tell us a phony has a constitutional right &#8211; &#8220;Freedom of Speech&#8221; &#8211;<br \/>\nto say he earned a Purple Heart when he did not.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That says it all right there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medals don&#8217;t make the hero That is what a blog post by a author named Mark &hellip; <a title=\"Why we have no pity for Phony Soldiers.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18500\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we have no pity for Phony Soldiers.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-soldiers-angels","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}