{"id":18790,"date":"2010-04-24T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18790"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:35:01","slug":"short-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18790","title":{"rendered":"Short memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diarist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3997#22226\">VetVoices<\/a> who calls himself HalDonahue is on a tear about Walter Reed&#8217;s upcoming move to two new facilities at Bethesda, MD and Fort Belvoir, VA. HalDonahue claims that the move denies world class care to the troops at a crucial timein the war against terror;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) is now causing DoD planners to deprive wounded military personal and indeed the entire military family of the very best medical care. The above quote confirms that the Department of Defense (DoD) directed that wounded soldiers be routed away from Walter Reed, the only world-class institution of its kind in the world. By DoD admission, the the New Walter Reed National Military Medical Center will not be world class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I happen to agree with Ol&#8217; Hal that this is a mistimed move. But unlike Hal, I remember that the Army tried to speed up construction at Bethesda over two years ago and the Democrat Congress, namely Chris VanHollen, Maryland Democrat Congressman, blocked them over concerns that the SUV-driving yuppies on Wisconsin Avenue would find the traffic disconcerting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=294\">I wrote about it then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HalDonahue asks &#8220;Where are the Veterans Service Organizations?&#8221; Where was VoteVets when VanHollen was more worried about his rich yuppie constituents&#8217; drive time than the troops? Where was HalDonahue? And what the F are they doing about it now, besides paying lip service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diarist at VetVoices who calls himself HalDonahue is on a tear about Walter Reed&#8217;s upcoming &hellip; <a title=\"Short memories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18790\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short memories<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walter-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790","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=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}