{"id":28117,"date":"2011-12-29T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28117"},"modified":"2011-12-29T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T13:14:39","slug":"iraqi-medal-of-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28117","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Medal of Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Iraqi-Medal-of-Commitment-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28118\" title=\"Iraqi-Medal-of-Commitment-graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Iraqi-Medal-of-Commitment-graphic-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucky sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.medalsofamerica.com\/iraq-medal-commitment\/\">Medals of America<\/a> which is saying that there will soon be a new medal for Iraq veterans called the Iraqi Medal of Commitment issued by the Iraqi government. This is supposedly text from the letter to the Secretary of Defense from the Iraqi Minister of Defense;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is our intention that the medal be awarded to military personnel who served in Iraq as part of the armed forces of the United States and other coalition nations. To qualify to receive the medal, service members must have served for 30 consecutive days or for 60 non-consecutive days within the borders of Iraq, within its territorial waters, or within its airspace during the period of March 19, 2003 to December 31, 2011. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I know you didn&#8217;t do it for the medals, but it&#8217;s nice to know that someone in Iraq appreciates your selfless service to their country. And, oh, this is by no means authorization for you to wear the medal this morning, it&#8217;s only a proposal at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky sends us a link to Medals of America which is saying that there will soon &hellip; <a title=\"Iraqi Medal of Commitment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28117\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraqi Medal of Commitment<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117","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=28117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}