{"id":22462,"date":"2011-03-02T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22462"},"modified":"2011-03-02T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:25:32","slug":"22462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22462","title":{"rendered":"“Their struggle is your struggle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cortillaen and ROS sent this link to the Washington Post<\/a> this morning about Lieutenant General John Kelly. Both Cortillaen and ROS included that this type of article is a rare appearance in the Post. <\/p>\n

“Their struggle is your struggle,” he told the ballroom crowd of former Marines and local business people. “If anyone thinks you can somehow thank them for their service, and not support the cause for which they fight – our country – these people are lying to themselves. . . . More important, they are slighting our warriors and mocking their commitment to this nation.”<\/p>\n

Kelly is the most senior U.S. military officer to lose a son or daughter in Iraq or Afghanistan. He was giving voice to a growing concern among soldiers and Marines: The American public is largely unaware of the price its military pays to fight the United States’ distant conflicts. Less than 1 percent of the population serves in uniform at a time when the country is engaged in one of the longest periods of sustained combat in its history. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You really need to read the entire piece – it’s also rare that I recommend that in the Post, but there’s no way that I can tell the story as well as it’s told by Greg Jaffe, the Post reporter.<\/p>\n

I’ll just say this; there is a huge disconnect between the troops and the rest of Americans. It’s probably the fault of the length of this war and the millions of detractors of the politics leading up to this war and through out the war. It’s certainly not the fault of veterans of previous wars who’ve stepped into the information gap created by petty politics. Not me, of course, but the thousands of real milbloggers, the Gathering of Eagles, the American Legion Riders, the Patriot Guard Riders and so on. <\/p>\n

I’m just a late-comer who glommed on to the rest of these folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cortillaen and ROS sent this link to the Washington Post this morning about Lieutenant General John … “Their struggle is your struggle”<\/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":[84,18,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-support-the-troops","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462","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=22462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}