{"id":24924,"date":"2011-06-24T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24924"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:47:14","slug":"its-tough-keeping-all-of-those-heroes-names-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24924","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s tough keeping all of those heroes&#8217; names straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first read this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/06\/president-obamas-terrible-mistake.html\">Blackfive<\/a> last night, and I should have known that my inbox would be full this morning. The President addressing the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cbn.com\/WhiteHouseWrap\/archive\/2011\/06\/23\/commander-in-chief-misspeaks-about-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan.aspx\">(from the CBN link that about fifty people sent me last night<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq.  When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there.  I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn\u2019t receiving it posthumously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, everyone knows that Sal Giunta is the only living Medal of Honor recipient (since Vietnam and during Obama&#8217;s term of office) and that Jared Monti was killed earning his.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a problem remembering people&#8217;s names when I knew I couldn&#8217;t sell them life insurance when I was in that business years ago. I can&#8217;t help but think that same kind of memory block is at work with the President. He knows very few military members will vote for him, so there&#8217;s no real motivation for him to keep their names straight.<\/p>\n<p>But, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d remember Sal Giunta since he said about Giunta &#8220;I genuinely like this guy&#8221; when he was awarding him the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first read this at Blackfive last night, and I should have known that my inbox &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s tough keeping all of those heroes&#8217; names straight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24924\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s tough keeping all of those heroes&#8217; names straight<\/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":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924","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=24924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}