{"id":27845,"date":"2011-12-08T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27845"},"modified":"2011-12-08T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:31:08","slug":"lieberman-joins-fight-for-domestic-purple-heart-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27845","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman joins fight for domestic Purple Heart awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/senator-wants-purple-heart-in-arkansas-shooting-1.162865\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Leo Shane reports that Joe Lieberman has joined with Senators from Texas and Arkansas to lobby the Defense Department to award to casualties of domestic terrorists in those States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a hearing Wednesday, Lieberman said he will try to insert an amendment in the annual defense authorization bill (currently in conference committee) to award a posthumous Purple Heart to Army recruiter Pvt. William Long, who was killed in a brazen 2009 shooting by a radical Islamic adherent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see anything coming from this because this administration seems allergic to admitting that the war against terrorists has come home with the troops. Our first line of defense in this domestic war is the defense of the 2d Amendment which is contrary to this administration&#8217;s ideological leanings. We&#8217;ve seen how they&#8217;ll sacrifice the economy for their adherents in the environmental hostage business, the same goes for the gun issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Stars &#038; Stripes, Leo Shane reports that Joe Lieberman has joined with Senators from &hellip; <a title=\"Lieberman joins fight for domestic Purple Heart awards\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27845\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lieberman joins fight for domestic Purple Heart awards<\/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":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845","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=27845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}