{"id":23435,"date":"2011-05-16T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23435"},"modified":"2011-05-16T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:27:05","slug":"matthis-in-philly-hs-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23435","title":{"rendered":"Matthis in Philly HS last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWo of my ninjas sent us this link to &#8220;We Are Not Your Soldiers&#8221; anti-recruiting efforts in a Philadelphia High School last Wednesday. Notice at about 4:50 into the video, Samantha goldman walks into the classroom and the camera follows her capturing some of the students&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dwudQlO5kGo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to watch the video, it&#8217;s the same old &#8220;poverty draft&#8221; blather. At about 8:40 Matthis tells the students that he was suicidal after he got out of the military &#8220;because of what I  experienced&#8221;. I guess the Baskin Robbins at Bagram ran out of Rocky Road one day.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I have the collection of photos that Matthis circulating as proof that he went &#8220;outside the wire&#8221; during his six days in Afghanistan. I&#8217;d like someone who has been there to evaluate the pictures. If you want to see them, email me and I&#8217;ll send them to you. It looks to me that he didn&#8217;t get too far outside the wire, though. And how far can you get in six days?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Matthis-outside-the-wire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23436\" title=\"Matthis outside the wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Matthis-outside-the-wire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Matthis-outside-the-wire.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Matthis-outside-the-wire-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWo of my ninjas sent us this link to &#8220;We Are Not Your Soldiers&#8221; anti-recruiting efforts &hellip; <a title=\"Matthis in Philly HS last week\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23435\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthis in Philly HS last week<\/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":[8,37,30,155,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-shitbags","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435","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=23435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}