{"id":29901,"date":"2012-05-10T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29901"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:07:23","slug":"legislation-for-la-and-tx-shootings-purple-heart-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29901","title":{"rendered":"Legislation for AR and TX shootings Purple Heart again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, this is kind of old\/new news, but once again Congress is thinking about passing legislation that would qualify the survivors and the fallen of the Fort Hood, Texas and Little Rock Arkansas shootings for the award of the Purple Heart, according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill are challenging the U.S. military to rethink how it classifies terrorist attacks on U.S. soil after the Defense Department decided the 2009 attack at Fort Hood and the attack on a recruiting office in Arkansas were domestic killings rather than flash points in the global war on terrorism.<\/p>\n

Those classifications mean the dozens who were wounded or killed at Fort Hood, Texas, and those killed or injured in Little Rock, Ark., were not eligible for Purple Heart medals \u2014 a ruling that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter T. King and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman want to change.<\/p>\n

They have introduced legislation that would allow domestic attacks on service members to be reviewed the same way as international terrorist attacks when it comes to awarding the Purple Heart, which is the military\u2019s decoration for troops wounded or killed while in combat zones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, while I don’t think it will go anywhere, I would sure like to see the debate in this, an election year. And I’d like a list of names of Congress members who think that the terror war has been over since before the Arkansas recruiting station shooting, and I’d like to see the President veto it because those were cases of workplace violence, again in the election year. And that’s probably why it won’t make it out of committee before November, because Harry Reid doesn’t want that on his voting record. <\/p>\n

Either way, Democrats loose. If they admit that those shootings of US soldiers on American soil were indeed terrorism, they admit that war has followed them home. If they vote against it, they’re admitting that they refuse to look at the realities of the world.<\/p>\n

But I’m sure I misspelled a word somewhere in there that Joe would much rather discuss for a few hundred comments than the failure of the Democrats to see clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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