{"id":21341,"date":"2010-11-29T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2010-11-29T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:55:38","slug":"matthis-at-tufts-the-final-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21341","title":{"rendered":"Matthis at Tufts; the final chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may remember the article that was written for Veterans&#8217; Day at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21272\">Tufts Daily<\/a> which was a cry-fest for poor little Matthis. You may also remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21290\">the letter his father sent in response<\/a> to the article. Today, to their credit, the editorial staff of Tufts Daily published  a response from a Vijay Saraswat, veteran,  a former marine and a student at Tufts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Daily could have interviewed any number of veterans at Tufts and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy who would have given a balanced and reasoned account of military culture.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That the Daily&#8217;s editors gave Matthis Chiroux a solitary platform in the first place is nothing short of outrageous. Even cursory research would have revealed fundamental inconsistencies between his statements, actions and service record which should have immediately tabled any consideration of a profile piece. And while Matthis Chiroux&#8217;s actual tour of duty deserves acknowledgement, his recent shameful actions and disingenuousness dishonor the legacy of service and sacrifice embodied by past and present members of the Armed Forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vijay wrote us last week and asked permission to use some of the research we&#8217;ve done in the nearly 3 years Matthis has held the spotlight on himself and he sent us a draft of this article before Thanksgiving. We heartily applaud his efforts. You should read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuftsdaily.com\/op-ed\/setting-the-record-straight-on-matthis-chiroux-1.2416762?pagereq=1\">Setting the record straight on Matthis Chiroux<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may remember the article that was written for Veterans&#8217; Day at Tufts Daily &hellip; <a title=\"Matthis at Tufts; the final chapter\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21341\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthis at Tufts; the final chapter<\/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":[8,37,30,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341","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=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}