{"id":29668,"date":"2012-04-24T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29668"},"modified":"2012-04-24T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:28:05","slug":"a-soldiers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29668","title":{"rendered":"A soldier’s story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article that C-Rat sent us<\/a> this morning, that I found interesting. A young National Guardsman, a specialist, tells the local news that he rescued a woman from attackers with his handgun. He was pretty descriptive about how he used his Army training to prevent the attack and then held the hoodlums until the police arrived and corralled them off to jail. <\/p>\n

I was suspicious about the story when it began with a “proud father’s” phone call to the media. I can certainly believe that the father is proud of his son for stepping up and doing the right thing. But that’s not normally how the media finds out about these kinds of stories.<\/p>\n

After reading the whole story I got to this line – because it’s a great story that you would enjoy;<\/p>\n

We’ve contacted Chattanooga police to verify Walker’s story, and find out more about the arrests, but have not yet heard back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’ve contacted the author and she still hasn’t heard back from the police. I called the police, too, and no one I talked to had heard the story, which seems strange to me…it seems to me that this would be a topic of conversation among the cops and there’s no other mention of the story anywhere else in the media.<\/p>\n

So if anyone knows folks in Chattanooga who can verify this story, I’d love to write about young Bradley Walker’s heroic day, but in the meantime, I’m skeptical…but I’ve gotten cynical about this shit since I started this blog and I doubt everything no matter where it’s printed. <\/p>\n

By the way, I’ve got a screen shot of the article in case I need it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an article that C-Rat sent us this morning, that I found interesting. A young National … A soldier’s story?<\/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-29668","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\/29668","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=29668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}