{"id":40065,"date":"2014-02-27T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40065"},"modified":"2014-02-27T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:11:30","slug":"peralta-discussion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40065","title":{"rendered":"Peralta discussion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend<\/a> we wrote about the Washington Post article in which two witnesses to Sergeant Rafael Peralta’s death and the heroic act which preceded it, claimed that the act never happened. The Washington Times<\/a> today reports that Sergeant Peralta’s mother claims that the Washington Post reporter, Ernesto Londo\u00f1o, tried to get her to play the race card in their interview;<\/p>\n

Peralta\u2019s mother Rosa said in a letter this week that a reporter for The Washington Post seemed intent on trying to get her to say her son was denied the Medal of Honor because he was Hispanic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other witnesses are standing by their original account of the events in that small room;<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re trying to smear the legacy of a Marine who\u2019s a hero, who saved my life, then you\u2019re barking up the wrong \u2026 tree,\u201d said Nicholas Jones, one of the Marines in the room when insurgents tossed the grenade toward the troops. Peralta received the Navy Cross for his actions, but his supporters \u2014 including California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, who himself served as a Marine office in Fallujah during the Iraq war \u2014 say he deserves the Medal of Honor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Washington Post article, their witnesses claim that those in the room conspired to concoct the heroic story about Peralta’s final act;<\/p>\n

Among those are the video shot by the combat photographer showing the aftermath of the fight and Peralta\u2019s body, with wounds consistent with the original story and contrary to what the dissenting Marines now claim. The video also covers the time period when the story would have been concocted, but there\u2019s no evidence of any such discussion, Mr. Hunter said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hunter also pointed to pictures of Peralta\u2019s body armor which ended up with a fragment of the grenade fuse embedded in it, which he said was consistent with the initial story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My problem is that Peralta was awarded the Navy Cross for things that are currently in dispute. He has a ship named after him because of that final act. So why are they having this discussion – based on the official statements made by “experts” who weren’t there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend we wrote about the Washington Post article in which two witnesses to Sergeant Rafael … Peralta discussion continues<\/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":[184,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065","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=40065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}