{"id":26099,"date":"2011-08-05T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26099"},"modified":"2011-08-05T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:08:52","slug":"sergeant-major-gets-purple-heart-c-o-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26099","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant major gets Purple Heart C.O.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only didn&#8217;t Army Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson not get the ceremony that most Purple Heart recipients get, he also got a $21 bill for postage according to <a href=\"http:\/\/keloland.com\/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=119098\">links sent to us<\/a> by ToothlessDawg and VTWoody.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dickerson, who was seriously wounded in a rocket blast while serving in Iraq in 2007, finally got his Purple Heart in the mail, four years late, and on top of it all was billed over $21.00 for postage. He couldn&#8217;t believe it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a matter of money, this is a matter of principle,&#8221; Dickerson said.<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson says because of a snafu with paperwork, he never got his Purple Heart when he should have. He has spent the last two years trying to prove to the Army he was injured in combat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only did Dickerson get the bill for postage, when the Army reimbursed him for the mistake, the check they sent was made out with a misspelling of his name. How much more disrespectful can those puzzle palace princes get? I guess they could have drove by his house and thrown the medal out on his lawn, I suppose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t want you to think I&#8217;m whining and complaining, because I&#8217;m not, I really don&#8217;t want this to happen to another soldier or any service member of the United States, it&#8217;s degrading,&#8221; Dickerson said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, you&#8217;ve earned the right to whine if you want, Sergeant Major. Lord knows the Army has given you good reason in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only didn&#8217;t Army Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson not get the ceremony that most Purple Heart &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant major gets Purple Heart C.O.D\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26099\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant major gets Purple Heart C.O.D<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099","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=26099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}