{"id":19681,"date":"2010-07-09T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2010-07-09T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:29:55","slug":"veterans-today-steals-story-in-toto-adds-unsubstantiated-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19681","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Today steals story in toto; adds unsubstantiated headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again, this is why I don&#8217;t trust VT as far as I could kick them.  They have a woeful story about a former marine who basically committed suicide by cop.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2010\/07\/09\/veteran-sufferring-cancer-shot-and-killed-maine-va-hospital\/\">And here is the title for the VT piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marine Suffering Cancer, PTSD Shot and Killed Near Maine VA Hospital<br \/>\n&#8211; Suffered from cancer, PTSD; advocated marijuana and stem cells &#8211;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/detail\/148256.html\">And here is the article they stole from in its entirety<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Nowhere in that underlying article does it mention PTSD.  Not once.  In fact, this is what the guy himself stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPopkowski joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1990. In 2003, the first lieutenant was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer called hepatosplenic gamma-delta T-cell lymphoma. Neighbors said it was commonly known that Popkowski was honorably discharged due to his medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Popkowski described himself as \u201ca rather stoic person\u201d who before his illness was not prone to moodiness. He said he believed his severe and ongoing depression was rooted in \u201csomething or some imbalance in my nervous system created by the GVHD.\u201d When the condition was being treated with steroids, he said, \u201cdepression was not an issue. As soon as the [steroid treatment] was stopped the depression came on like a freight train.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would they add the PTSD part do you think?  Maybe to make the story fit their narrative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, this is why I don&#8217;t trust VT as far as I could kick them. They &hellip; <a title=\"Veterans Today steals story in toto; adds unsubstantiated headline\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19681\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veterans Today steals story in toto; adds unsubstantiated headline<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}