{"id":79954,"date":"2018-06-13T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79954"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:06:27","slug":"indiana-va-and-gay-pride-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79954","title":{"rendered":"Indiana VA and Gay Pride flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79955\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags-768x374.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags-500x243.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wane.com\/news\/local-news\/pride-flag-replaces-military-flags-at-fort-wayne-va-hospital\/1234399495?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook_WANE-TV_NewsChannel_15\">WANE<\/a> which reports that the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System in Fort Wayne removed five service flags so they could fly a gay pride rainbow flag at their facility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sight drew plenty of attention from residents and visitors to the VA. NewsChannel 15 received several questions and comments and photos from viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System issued the following statement:<br \/>\n&#8220;Logistically, we could not add a flag without removing a flag from the poles outside our VA. Rather than single out one military branch&#8217;s flag to be temporarily replaced with the LGBT flag, we chose to remove all of them for one day in order to show our dedication to serving all Veterans equally.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe VA said service flags were put back up before the end of the business day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79956\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags2-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flags2.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to WANE which reports that the VA Northern Indiana Health Care &hellip; <a title=\"Indiana VA and Gay Pride flag\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79954\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indiana VA and Gay Pride flag<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79954","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=79954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}