{"id":26236,"date":"2011-08-19T07:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26236"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T16:39:40","slug":"iava-on-the-cover-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26236","title":{"rendered":"IAVA on the cover of TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Reickoff sent out a letter to his membership of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America organization congratulating them for being chosen to be on the cover of Time Magazine. But if you look at the cover, it&#8217;s not &#8220;we veterans&#8221; on the cover, it&#8217;s the follically-impaired Reickhoff;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IAVA-Time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26237\" title=\"IAVA Time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IAVA-Time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IAVA-Time.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IAVA-Time-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dunno, if I led an organization of veterans and I wanted them represented on the cover of a national magazine, I&#8217;d have put someone besides myself on the cover&#8230;well, unless the organization is all about promoting me and getting me ahead. The letter he sent to the membership began;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear XXXXXXX,<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got some huge news. And it\u2019s all about you &#8211; the \u201cNew Greatest Generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, 4 IAVA Member Veterans and I are on the cover of TIME Magazine!<\/p>\n<p>This is a huge moment for IAVA &#8211; and for all new veterans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, if it&#8217;s all about veterans, why is Reickoff in one of the people in the picture?<\/p>\n<p>You can watch &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/iava.org\/faces-next-greatest-generation#New\">the making of the Time cover<\/a>&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to StrikeFO for the link.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/08\/time-and-new-veterans.html\">Blackfive<\/a>, who made it past the cover of Time and read the article, for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Reickoff sent out a letter to his membership of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of &hellip; <a title=\"IAVA on the cover of TIME\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26236\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IAVA on the cover of TIME<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236","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=26236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}