{"id":37219,"date":"2013-08-23T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37219"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:43:22","slug":"bales-sentenced-life-without-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37219","title":{"rendered":"Bales sentenced; life without parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big week for the military justice system, huh? According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/us-soldier-apologizes-for-act-of-cowardice-in-murder-of-16-afghan-civilians-testimony-ends\/2013\/08\/22\/abca7c6e-0b95-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, SSG Robert Bales was sentenced this morning, too;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bales did not recount specifics of the horrors in court when he testified Thursday or offer an explanation for the violence, but he described the killings as an \u201cact of cowardice, behind a mask of fear, bulls&#8212; and bravado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away,\u201d he said in a mostly steady voice during questions from one of his lawyers. \u201cI can\u2019t comprehend their loss. I think about it every time I look at my kids.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I figure that the perpetually outraged will find fault with the sentence, but the judge gave the harshest punishment he could under the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chip for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big week for the military justice system, huh? According to the Washington Post, SSG Robert Bales &hellip; <a title=\"Bales sentenced; life without parole\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37219\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bales sentenced; life without parole<\/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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219","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=37219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}