{"id":37181,"date":"2013-08-21T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37181"},"modified":"2013-08-21T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:01:19","slug":"more-military-ribbon-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37181","title":{"rendered":"More military ribbon abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Wolf sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.militarytimes.com\/battle-rattle\/2013\/08\/20\/six-flags-park-in-illinois-cancels-use-of-military-ribbons-for-security-guards-uniforms\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a>&#8216; Battle Rattle which went after the Six Flags Illinois security guards for wearing military ribbons based on the views of a former Marine whose child pointed out the ribbons after the Marine, Robert Smith, showed his son his own awards;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI saw a 23- or 24-year-old wearing a Combat Action Ribbon with two gold stars,\u201d Smith told Marine Corps Times. \u201cAnother guy had four rows of three ribbons. I know gunnery sergeants or staff sergeants when I was in that didn\u2019t even have that many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he asked the security guard wearing the Combat Action Ribbon what the stars stood for, and he said they represented reuniting lost children with their parents. All day at the park, Smith said he was offended every time he saw another security guard\u2019s ribbon rack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery award I have means something to me,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt was belittling and hurtful to have [my son] say, \u2018Oh, look. He has the same ribbons as you.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Battle Rattle says that they contacted Six Flags on Monday and by Tuesday, their policy had changed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have the utmost respect for the men and women who serve our country and the rewards and recognition they earn,\u201d said Katy Enrique, communications manager with the park. \u201cIt was never our intention to undervalue military ribbons by using them as part of our park\u2019s recognition program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The uniform policy was not a company-wide policy, so only applied to the Illinois location, Enrique said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Wolf sends us a link to Marine Corps Times&#8216; Battle Rattle which went after the &hellip; <a title=\"More military ribbon abuse\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37181\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More military ribbon abuse<\/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":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181","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=37181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}