{"id":56090,"date":"2014-10-29T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56090"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:54:16","slug":"lermon-what-those-who-serve-their-country-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56090","title":{"rendered":"Lermon: What those who serve their country deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/28\/lermon-what-those-who-serve-their-country-deserve\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS\">The Washington Times<\/a> invited our own Mike Lermon to respond to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55916\">October 19th article<\/a> disparaging the traditional Veterans Service Organizations. If Mike wants to tell you his screen name here, he can do that in the comments. But he hit many of the points that I did, but he was much more artful;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m writing today in response to The Washington Times article by Jacqueline Klimas on Oct. 19. Interestingly enough, I read this piece in the lobby of my local VA clinic on Monday morning. The broad-brushed \u201cout of touch\u201d characterization of groups such as the VFW and American Legion, and the overall tone that permeated much of the article, was very surprising and disappointing as I watched groups of selfless veteran volunteers \u2014 mostly from the Vietnam era that forms the majority of their membership \u2014 diligently helping the clinic staff and cheerfully assisting every one of their brothers and sisters who walked in the door. Based upon my experiences with the veterans from this visit and other similar encounters in my community, the people who make these groups worth supporting are out helping their fellow veterans at 10 a.m. in places like the VA clinics and Vet Centers, instead of just drinking and smoking at the post hall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should click over and read the article to let the Times know that we veterans are watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times invited our own Mike Lermon to respond to their October 19th article disparaging &hellip; <a title=\"Lermon: What those who serve their country deserve\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56090\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lermon: What those who serve their country deserve<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56090","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=56090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}