{"id":19795,"date":"2010-07-20T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19795"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:34:31","slug":"letters-from-ivaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19795","title":{"rendered":"Letters from IVAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a query to IVAW&#8217;s Jose Vasquez, the Executive Director, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19784\">sent this picture of Matthis<\/a> and asked Jose if this is the official position of IVAW. Vasquez responded that I should know better. That &#8220;Matthis marches to his own drum.&#8221; He also added that I should be heartened by the fact that there&#8217;s a whole new Board of Directors who will rein in some of this behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what we were told last year after the election of the Board? The Board upon which Matthis currently sits? The same board that lets shit like this stand;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;a lot of people in this country feel like the US army is some place to go and make a man of yourself. I am less of a man today for having served in the US military.&#8221; &#8211; Matthis Chiroux Afghanistan War Veteran<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are lots of reasons that Matthis is less of a man, none of those reasons have to do with the military &#8211; except that lie he propagates about being an Afghanistan veteran.<\/p>\n<p>IVAW won&#8217;t do anything about Matthis, they&#8217;re too busy pushing the Code Pink agenda on Gaza and something about immigration. Nothing that has to do with the troops. Apparently, the only statement about the troops from IVAW is coming from Matthis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a query to IVAW&#8217;s Jose Vasquez, the Executive Director, I sent this picture of Matthis &hellip; <a title=\"Letters from IVAW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19795\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letters from IVAW<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795","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=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}