{"id":29929,"date":"2012-05-14T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29929"},"modified":"2012-05-14T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:36:00","slug":"aaron-hughes-ivaw-at-nato-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29929","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Hughes; IVAW at NATO protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone at Facebook mentioned that Aaron hughes was leading the IVAW&#8217;s effort in Chicago last week to protest the NATO conference. then Tom sent us this video yesterday in which he appears at 10:38 into it;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxztIO03rCI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, Aaron says that there are 18 veteran suicides everyday, that 17% of people in Afghanistan are on psychotropic drugs, that 20-50% of those suffer from PTSD, TBI or Military Sexual trauma, 1\/3 of military women suffer a sexual assault, 48% of sexual assaults are committed against male soldiers. I don&#8217;t know where he got those numbers from, but they&#8217;re all higher than generally-accepted statistics.<\/p>\n<p>But I get a feeling from his IVAW profile that he&#8217;s just a whiner, anyway. Apparently, he joined the military for the college benefits and was upset that he had to actually do something to earn those benefits;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Aaron-Hughes-IVAW-profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29930\" title=\"Aaron Hughes IVAW profile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Aaron-Hughes-IVAW-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Aaron-Hughes-IVAW-profile.jpg 935w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Aaron-Hughes-IVAW-profile-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, he was in Kuwait and made trips into Iraq occasionally for 15 months and he doesn&#8217;t like the idea that they pulled him out of school to do that little mission. But I guess since the protest was against NATO, he&#8217;s going to take his case to the streets of Chicago and continue whining. I don&#8217;t know how IVAW thinks that this helps veterans in any way, nice to know that they&#8217;ve found some relevance again, but i don&#8217;t think a whiner like Aaron should be the vessel for their message.<\/p>\n<p>Folks tell me that he was sporting an &#8220;I support TSO&#8221; beard last week, too, which was nice of him. By the way, 100% of the embedded bloggers from TAH in Afghanistan this month volunteered to go to Afghanistan despite their PTS (I learned this weekend that&#8217;s the accepted way to refer to Post-Traumatic Stress, because it&#8217;s NOT a disorder).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone at Facebook mentioned that Aaron hughes was leading the IVAW&#8217;s effort in Chicago last &hellip; <a title=\"Aaron Hughes; IVAW at NATO protest\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29929\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aaron Hughes; IVAW at NATO protest<\/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":[131,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929","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=29929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}