{"id":850,"date":"2007-11-09T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/terry-stater-column\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T01:07:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T05:07:34","slug":"terry-stater-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Terry Stater Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Stater has written an outstanding column entitled: The Second Casualty of War, you can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/terrysater\/story\/DD3BA4F9A8DE25AA8625738C007F2BDF?OpenDocument\">HERE on STLToday.com<\/a><br \/>\nA short excerpt: <strong>If &#8220;In war, truth is the first casualty,&#8221; the second is the image and reputation of our military. It has been under attack for 40 years. It isn&#8217;t the primary target; it is collateral damage, or a useful secondary target, in a war on the war.<\/p>\n<p>Debate on the Iraq war is legitimate. Dissent can be patriotic. But the campaign against the honor, courage and integrity of our troops isn&#8217;t just unpatriotic; it is despicable. It is treason. The honor of those who serve cannot be tarnished or stolen. It is diminished only in those who try. Those who denigrate our military often begin with, &#8220;I support the troops, but&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nVery worthwhile reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Stater has written an outstanding column entitled: The Second Casualty of War, you can find &hellip; <a title=\"Terry Stater Column\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=850\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terry Stater Column<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-politics","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}