{"id":18768,"date":"2010-04-23T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2010-04-23T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:52:09","slug":"sv-millard-iraq-veteran-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18768","title":{"rendered":"SV Millard: Iraq veteran in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geof “Stolen Valor<\/a>” Millard has a story up on the IVAW website which chronicles his latest adventure to Vietnam, entitled “My part in a veterans deligation [sic] to Vietnam<\/a>“. Millard is famous for his trips to places like Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela to denigrate America. Now he goes to Vietnam with VVAW and VFP members to trot out his biases and blow his own horn;<\/p>\n

Virtnam may seem an odd place for an Iraq vet whose parents had not even met when the last US forces retreated in defeat hanging from helicopters, but somehow I was the perfect peice to complete a very complicated puzle. You see there are many conections to be made between the two wars but I was there because both were toxic battlefields that left veteran and civillian alike scared for many generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess he doesn’t have spell check on his computer;<\/p>\n

I was amazed to see vterans of both sides share war storries as easily as stories of thier children, most of whom are many years my elder. These vets also share disseases that are just as much the legacy of Vietnam as is that black mirrored wall on the north west side of our national mall, just to the left of lincolns feet.<\/p>\n

My thoughts offten wandered forward in time to the day when I would go to Iraq. When I would meet with my former foe. When I would help press my government to take resposability and provide relief for the toxic battlefield we have been creating seince the first gulf war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Millard had an enemy in Iraq other than boredom? He was a general’s gopher. He spent his whole time in Iraq trying to get back to the States because he had an owie in his back (that he admits he had since high school).<\/p>\n

Depleted uranium is killing our soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

We must fight for compensation and treatment before thousands die from DU as they did from AO. We must link our struggle for justice with that of those left alive in the toxic battlefieds that we are now slowly pulling out of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There it is – the IVAW is going to try to copy the Vietnam War veterans by pushing this absolutely ridiculous depleted uranium canard. That’s all they have and if you don’t believe them they’ll wave the Agent Orange bloody shirt.<\/p>\n

I’m proud of my trip and I am proud of the work done by VVAW, VFP, and IVAW. I am proud that while some spend thier time protesting antiwar veterans, we the antiwar vterans are hard at work for peace and justice for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Hard at work” only if it involves completely ridiculous trips to communist countries to push an agenda that doesn’t help American veterans. Then swat at ghosts of completely manufactured maladies.<\/p>\n

I guess he’s saying that the American Legion and VFW are “protesting antiwar veterans” but if he’s trying to say that IVAW has done more more for veterans than the traditional VSOs because they took this one useless trip, he’s fooling himself.<\/p>\n

In fact, maybe IVAW can stop pushing their “Veterans as sociopathic nuts” meme to help fix this problem<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the issue is there\u2019s a real disconnect between the military and the rest of America,\u201d said Mark Walker, deputy director of the American Legion\u2019s economic division.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople outside the military don\u2019t know about PTSD or TBI. It\u2019s all new to them. So they worry, \u2018Am I going to see some sort of outburst? What might he do?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about fixing that, Geoff, instead of flying to Vietnam to take shots at us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geof “Stolen Valor” Millard has a story up on the IVAW website which chronicles his latest … SV Millard: Iraq veteran in Vietnam<\/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":[8,37,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","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=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}