{"id":67965,"date":"2016-09-15T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67965"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:18:36","slug":"three-us-kurdish-militia-members-brought-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67965","title":{"rendered":"Three US Kurdish militia members brought home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/09\/14\/after-long-wait-the-remains-of-three-american-militiamen-killed-in-syria-returned-to-the-u-s\/\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that US citizens who were killed fighting with the Kurdish militia against ISIS are making their last journey home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan MacTaggart will arrive on a flight to Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport, before traveling to their respective home states, said Shirley\u2019s mother, Susan, and Savage\u2019s sister, Brenna. Kurdish groups transported the remains by ground from Syria to Iraq earlier this month, weeks after they were killed in combat against the Islamic State while serving as members of the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), a ground force aligned with the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D.-Colo.)] said in a statement Wednesday that though the three men did not serve in the U.S. military, the United States has the responsibility to bring them home and to give the families relief and closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile much of the process took too long, this situation was unique and extremely complicated,\u201d Perlmutter said. \u201cIt took extraordinary measures by many people to get these men from Syria to the U.S. \u2014 especially given the ever-changing and dangerous geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. It seems we are in the final stages of this long and sad situation. I will be relieved when these young men are finally returned home to their families.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Post says that Shirley was denied enlistment into the Marine Corps because of poor eye sight and Savage had a history of seizures which prevented his enlistment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that US citizens who were &hellip; <a title=\"Three US Kurdish militia members brought home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67965\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three US Kurdish militia members brought home<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965","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=67965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}