{"id":65365,"date":"2016-04-21T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65365"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:01:29","slug":"chattanooga-victims-awarded-purple-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65365","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga victims awarded Purple Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MustangCryppie sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/04\/20\/families-marines-killed-chattanooga-attack-receive-purple-hearts\/83286802\/\">the Military Times<\/a> which reports that the families of the Marines lost in the terrorist shooting last year in Chattanooga, Tennessee received Purple Heart Medals;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The families of Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan, Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, Sgt. Carson Holmquist and Lance Cpl. Squire \u201cSkip\u201d Wells received the medals from Lt. Gen. Rex McMillian, head of Marine Corps Forces Reserve, during a ceremony at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Purple Heart medals were presented in separate ceremonies earlier this year to the family of Navy Petty Officer Randall Smith, the sailor also killed in the attack, as well as Sgt. DeMonte Cheeley, a Marine recruiter wounded in the first shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines and sailor became eligible for the Purple Heart after an investigation by the FBI and the Navy Criminal Investigative Service concluded that Abdulazeez&#8217;s attack was inspired by a foreign terrorist group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess the government is willing to admit that war followed the troops home after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting\">Fort Hood, Texas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Little_Rock_recruiting_office_shooting\">Little Rock, Arkansas <\/a>shootings by terrorists on US soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MustangCryppie sends us a link from the Military Times which reports that the families of the &hellip; <a title=\"Chattanooga victims awarded Purple Hearts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65365\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chattanooga victims awarded Purple Hearts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365","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=65365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}