{"id":20065,"date":"2010-08-10T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:44:12","slug":"on-basil-marceaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20065","title":{"rendered":"On Basil Marceaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in response to several requests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20043\">I wrote a bit about Basil Marceaux<\/a>, a candidate for governor in Tennessee who claimed he had been a Force Recon Marine. I doubted it given his demeanor at the time. We just got his records fromour friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/\">POW Net<\/a> and it turns out he was indeed involved in Force Recon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Basil-Marcheaux-FOIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20066\" title=\"Basil Marcheaux FOIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Basil-Marcheaux-FOIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Basil-Marcheaux-FOIA.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Basil-Marcheaux-FOIA-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Marceaux-Assignments-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20067\" title=\"Marceaux Assignments 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Marceaux-Assignments-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Marceaux-Assignments-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Marceaux-Assignments-1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He went in the Marines in 1971 until 1973 when the military was drawing down so he didn&#8217;t go to Vietnam, but that doesn&#8217;t detract from his service. He never claimed any medals he didn&#8217;t earn, unlike many other politicians. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, Basil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in response to several requests, I wrote a bit about Basil Marceaux, a candidate &hellip; <a title=\"On Basil Marceaux\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20065\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Basil Marceaux<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065","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=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}