{"id":61463,"date":"2015-08-20T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61463"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:56:22","slug":"ricardo-saldana-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61463","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Saldana, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61168\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Saldana\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We talked a bit about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61167\">Ricardo Saldana earlier this month<\/a> when he was featured in a story about how being a deserter keeps him from getting treatment from the VA. He doesn&#8217;t come right out and say that he&#8217;s a Vietnam veteran, but, you know, he is wearing that hat for the interview. So he shouldn&#8217;t mind if we make his records public;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61465\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Saldana FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-FOIA.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61464\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-Assignments-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Saldana Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-Assignments-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-Assignments-500x314.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ricardo-Saldana-Assignments.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was barely out of AIT when the South Vietnamese government collapsed, so he wasn&#8217;t in Vietnam during the war there.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, he also wasn&#8217;t 16 years old when he joined the Army, either &#8211; he was 18, born in 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked a bit about Ricardo Saldana earlier this month when he was featured in a &hellip; <a title=\"Ricardo Saldana, revisited\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61463\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ricardo Saldana, revisited<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463","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=61463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}