{"id":48738,"date":"2014-05-25T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48738"},"modified":"2014-05-25T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:12:17","slug":"vets-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48738","title":{"rendered":"Vets in line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2014\/05\/23\/bodies-of-28-veterans-at-la-county-morgue-will-finally-receive-proper-burial\/\">CBS Los Angeles<\/a> we learn of 28 veterans still waiting in line for their turn at VA benefits. Veterans wait for years for their claims to the benefits they&#8217;ve earned, they wait for treatment at VA hospitals, now we find  veterans waiting to be buried;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law states veterans are supposed to receive a proper burial.<\/p>\n<p>The Veterans Administration says they were never notified the bodies were processed and ready to be buried.<\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen bodies were transported to the Riverside National Cemetery Friday afternoon and more could be moved as they are identified.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, KCAL9?s Stacey Butler reported the LA County Morgue and the Veteran\u2019s Administration were blaming each other for the mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point, the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department has no credibility in the discussion about veterans waiting for what they earn and deserve. I&#8217;m pretty sure that a morgue would want to clear out space in their facility, and it&#8217;s more believable that some lazy bureaucrat would ignore notifications from the city. <\/p>\n<p>I may be wrong, it happened once before when I thought I thought I was wrong about something, but I was right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS Los Angeles we learn of 28 veterans still waiting in line for their turn &hellip; <a title=\"Vets in line\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48738\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vets in line<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48738","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=48738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}