{"id":87291,"date":"2019-05-22T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87291"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:50:54","slug":"the-other-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87291","title":{"rendered":"The Other Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MooH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-87292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MooH-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The people at <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2019\/05\/the-other-stolen-valor-unrecognized-heroism-in-our-recent-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">War on the Rocks published<\/a> an interesting article labeling unrecognized heroism in recent years as a form of stolen valor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the U.S. military, relatively few heroes have fought in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although more than 2.7 million servicemembers have served on more than 5.4 million deployments since 2001, the number of military awards for valor has reached historic lows. This steep decline is not necessarily because modern combat has become less intense; Pentagon data shows that almost 5,500 servicemembers have been killed in action since 2001, and more than 52,000 have been wounded in action. Instead, a major reason for the striking dearth of awards is also an unexpected one: The U.S. military has changed how it thinks about heroism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The authors, David Barno and Nora Bensahel, go on to point out&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pendulum has swung too far in the wrong direction, and needs to be corrected. Those who acted heroically in the recent wars deserve to be formally recognized for doing so. Moreover, the military services need to ensure that standards for duty have not become so high that heroism cannot be distinguished from duty. There are at least three ways to begin to address this problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They do have a point &#8211; if you go back to the early 1900s-mid 1900s, Medal of Honors were awarded to men that carried sensitive messages (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients_for_the_Boxer_Rebellion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Boxer Rebellion<\/em><\/a>) and others who helped with a boiler fire (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Bennington_(PG-4)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>USS<\/em> <\/a><em>Bennington)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people at War on the Rocks published an interesting article labeling unrecognized heroism in recent &hellip; <a title=\"The Other Stolen Valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87291\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Other Stolen Valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":87292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,400,389],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-87291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iraq","category-valor","tag-medal-of-honor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87291","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87294,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87291\/revisions\/87294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}