{"id":28752,"date":"2012-02-15T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28752"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:13:39","slug":"whittling-down-the-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28752","title":{"rendered":"Whittling down the heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, TSO wrote about<\/a> the politically correct process that the White House is using to honor Iraq War veterans at their state dinner later this month. USA Today<\/a> details the process this morning;<\/p>\n

First and foremost, every state, territory and the District of Columbia had to be represented. Ethnic, racial and gender diversity was crucial, and every service and every rank had to be included.<\/p>\n

“The whole kit and caboodle,” said Marine Sgt. Maj. Brian Battaglia, senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest ranking enlisted officer in the military.<\/p>\n

“What we wanted inside that (East) Room is America,” Battaglia said of the White House location where the dinner will be held.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s not America. We’re supposed to be about one culture with a single heritage, not gender and racial identities. We were attacked because we’re Americans, not because of stupid shit like who puts what in who.<\/p>\n

About 100 guests and their significant others are being invited to the White House. But after the service chiefs, families who lost a loved one in combat and other selected VIPs were accounted for, the Pentagon had 64 slots left for combat veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So a single party to honor veterans of a war will only be attended by 64% of those heroes? What the fuck are the other straphangers there for? To feel heroic?<\/p>\n

The Marines addressed the problem by selecting troops who live largely in the Washington, D.C., area but whose hometowns were from states that needed to be represented, said Gunnery Sgt. Chanin “Nun” Nuntavong, who with one other Marine contacted potential attendees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, THAT has never happened before. The headshed wienies get to go to the fancy parties and get honors while trigger pullers out in boondocks get to watch it on TV while they’re waiting for their next guard shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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