{"id":28651,"date":"2012-02-07T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28651"},"modified":"2012-02-07T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:40:32","slug":"everything-the-military-is-not-in-one-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28651","title":{"rendered":"Everything the military is NOT in one sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has me really mad. <\/a> I’m bolding the most idiotic statement.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 29, President Obama and the First Lady will host an East Room dinner for returning Iraq veterans, with representatives of all ranks, all branches, and every state and territory. Attire will be formal: black tie or dress uniform. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, will attend. More than 100 combat veterans of Iraq will be invited, along with a guest for each, many of whom are expected to also be veterans. The guest list will include wounded warriors, caregivers, and Gold Star families, who have lost a loved one as the result of military service. The list is being assembled by the senior enlisted representative for the five service chiefs, and the goal is a mix that is racially diverse, old and young, gay and straight.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The beautiful thing to me about the military was the equality of opportunity and the meritocracy. I really didn’t give two shits if the person next to me was fat, skinny, gay, straight, metrosexual, sartorially deficient, black, white, asian, male, female or other. I just wanted them to shoot straight. And now they are hosting a dinner party as a black tie affair (real working man’s shit right there) where the stated goal is to find “a mix that is racially diverse, old and young, gay and straight.” <\/p>\n

Are you kidding me with this shit? Why the fug should a persons sexual orientation, gender or ethnicty be a determinant in a White House invite to celebrate the end of Iraq? Why not just do a damn lottery or something? Holy shit this makes me mad.<\/p>\n

As my friend David Bellavia snarked:<\/p>\n

Great news!!! President Obama, in lieu of having an Impersonal ticker tape parade, is inviting 200 Iraq war veterans to a black tie dinner at the white house. Surely no generals or high ranking pencil pushers will be there. Just grunts. Bloodied, valorous, selfless grunts. <\/p>\n

So my fellow Ramrods, I will be with Ruiz and Sucholas by the chocolate fountain….. You didn’t get invited either? Maybe our invitations are lost with the other 1.1 million who served. <\/p>\n

Open the rose garden and fire up the BBQ. Let’s all go and drink to the fallen. Maybe president Romney will hook us up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has me really mad. I’m bolding the most idiotic statement. On Feb. 29, President Obama … Everything the military is NOT in one sentence<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28651","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}