{"id":29092,"date":"2012-03-12T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29092"},"modified":"2012-03-12T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:35:07","slug":"tah-on-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29092","title":{"rendered":"TAH on MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was interviewing on BBC today, I got an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/03\/12\/10655946-soldier-accused-in-afghan-massacre-could-get-death-penalty\">Jeff Black at MSNBC<\/a> who wanted an opinion he&#8217;d find no where else;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired Army platoon Sgt. Jonn Lilyea, a Desert Storm veteran who writes the blog &#8220;This Ain\u2019t Hell,&#8221; told msnbc.com he expects the military to make an example out of the shooter as the case moves through the justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Lilyea cautioned that people should not rush to blame the killings on the soldier\u2019s deployments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d wait to see if he really was in a position that would have affected him in this way,&#8221; Lilyea said. &#8220;But I\u2019m more concerned people will try to use this like they did after Vietnam with the My Lai massacre and taint all combat veterans of this generation as if they were like this one guy.&#8221; Millions of Americans have served in combat, seen and done &#8220;terrible things,&#8221; but have gone on to normal productive lives after their service, Lilyea pointed out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I know my interviews are less sexy than the interviews that IVAW does, and I&#8217;m kind of boring and no broad brushes, but I hope that I&#8217;m helping you guys out. Which is why this blog is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was interviewing on BBC today, I got an email from Jeff Black at MSNBC &hellip; <a title=\"TAH on MSNBC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29092\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAH on MSNBC<\/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":[6,84,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29092","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=29092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}