{"id":67003,"date":"2016-07-21T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67003"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:23:53","slug":"salena-zito-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67003","title":{"rendered":"Salena Zito gets it right"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the Hill this morning written by Salena Zito, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page columnist, who makes me eat my words the last few days in reference to journalists. Zito writes Blaming the military for police shootings is too easy<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Yes, it is likely they [the Baton Rouge and Dallas murderers] made their weapon and ammo choice, acquired their marksmanship skills, and selected their firing positions from which to murder and wound law enforcement officers based on their training.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[I]t is too great a leap right now to assume they also acquired their hate and their mindset to commit a despicable crime from their service.<\/p>\n

To do so would perpetuate an inaccurate, unfair, and damaging stereotype that is constantly playing in entertainment and the media and negatively impacts today\u2019s veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zito continues that there is a sense of brotherhood between the military and law enforcement in our shared commitment to duty and service.<\/p>\n

If anything, veterans feel as though we are kindred spirits to first responders they have the \u201chome game\u201d and the military has the \u201caway game\u201d\u2026lifestyle, family issues, the need for fitness, expertise, resilience and professionalism are similar in many ways.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

We also know that many of today\u2019s law enforcement officers also serve in the Reserve and the National Guard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems unlikely and it’s insulting to veterans that people in the media would blame our military service for the actions of two cop-murdering cowards. Zito quotes Major General Anthony Cucolo; \u201cI guarantee you that inside most \u2013 if not all — veterans is a feeling that these deaths [in Baton Rouge and Dallas] are a family loss.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the Hill this morning written by Salena Zito, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial … Salena Zito gets it right<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67003","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=67003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}