{"id":73,"date":"2004-08-20T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"recollections-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Recollections of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems one of the &#8220;Swiftboat Veterans for Truth&#8221; who claim Kerry did not actually come under enemy fire for his medal, Larry Thurlow, in fact received a Bronze star for the self-same engagement.  Apparently in the 35 years or so since, he never bothered to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/documents\/veterans_citation.pdf\">citation for the award he received<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite enemy bullets flying around him, he leaped aboard the damaged boat&#8230;&#8221;  &#8220;He quickly radioed for medical evacuation of the wounded and, while still under fire, with complete disregard for his personal safety, &#8230;&#8221; Gosh, that&#8217;s a pretty impressive stuff!   How humble can you get to not read that any time in the last 3 1\/2 decades?  I guess now that he has, he&#8217;ll be turning the award back to the government, since it never really happened.<\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t it amazing that <u>so many<\/u> different people claim to have seen and have opinions on John Kerry&#8217;s service, but we still can&#8217;t find a single person who actually saw George W. Bush show up for his ANG duty in Alabama?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems one of the &#8220;Swiftboat Veterans for Truth&#8221; who claim Kerry did not actually come under enemy fire for his medal, Larry Thurlow, in fact received a Bronze star for the self-same engagement. Apparently in the 35 years or so since, he never bothered to read the citation for the award he received. &#8220;Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}