{"id":37074,"date":"2013-08-13T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37074"},"modified":"2013-08-13T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:23:57","slug":"afghan-hero-waiting-for-visa-to-escape-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37074","title":{"rendered":"Afghan hero waiting for visa to escape Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=2598345390001&#038;w=500&#038;h=263\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TSO sends us this video from Fox News about Hafez, the translator who helped Dakota Meyer carry wounded and dead Americans and Afghans in the action for which Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor. In the process, Hafez killed several Taliban, an act which has made him a target of those creatures over there. He has applied for, and is mostly approved for a visa to escape the terrorism that he and his family faces over there. But his application has languished for four years in a Washington, DC office at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer tells the story of Hafez in this interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnewsinsider.com\/2013\/08\/12\/medal-honor-recipient-dakota-meyer-fights-get-us-entry-afghan-translator\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;For the day that I received the medal of honor, he was in the truck with us,&#8221; Meyer said, recounting Hafez&#8217;s acts of courage. &#8220;He covered me multiple times with the gun on the truck &#8230; he was next to me, he was within arm&#8217;s distance of me almost the entire time, helping me look for my team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meyer said that after Hafez suffered an initial injury of his own, Meyer once more asked him to go back with him into the line of danger. Instead of fleeing the scene, he agreed to stay by Meyer&#8217;s side, telling him, &#8220;if today&#8217;s my day to die, then it&#8217;s just my day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;And he went in with me, and he stayed there the whole time,&#8221; the medal of honor recipient told Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there any doubt why we&#8217;re not trusted in that region? Our word is no better than the Taliban&#8217;s. There are 5000 visas available for the people who helped us fight that war and fewer than 200 have been approved. I guess nothing will distract us from our rush for the exits.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to TSO for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends us this video from Fox News about Hafez, the translator who helped Dakota Meyer &hellip; <a title=\"Afghan hero waiting for visa to escape Taliban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghan hero waiting for visa to escape Taliban<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074","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=37074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}