{"id":69366,"date":"2016-12-12T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69366"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:09:42","slug":"pittsburgh-post-gazette-denies-vietnam-vets-last-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69366","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette denies Vietnam vet’s last request"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a><\/p>\n

Air Force veteran David Ryan was called a \u201cbaby killer\u201d upon his return from Vietnam, like many of his generation who answered their nation’s call to duty. So, he asked his daughter to make sure that his obituary emphasized that he wasn’t a baby killer, according to KPTV<\/a>. So when the time came she made the request to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that they add the line \u201cnot a murderer, not a baby killer, just a Vietnam vet.\u201d The paper refused with no explanation;<\/p>\n

“They didn’t give a reason. They just said we cannot print this,” [his daughter, Heather] Vargo said.<\/p>\n

She says her father has been disrespected once again.<\/p>\n

“I feel like he was disrespected then, and he was disrespected again whenever they refused to print that. His last words,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A different local paper, the Penn Hills Progress, will be printing the full obituary on the funeral home\u2019s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that printing that line would be easier than not printing it, if anyone at the Post-Gazette believed it. I’m sure that he’d asked to print a plea for a vote for the wife of a draft dodger for President, it wouldn’t have been a discussion.<\/p>\n

I called the Post-Gazette’s editorial department and they blame a contractor that does their obits for denying the request. They tell me that they are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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