{"id":56843,"date":"2014-12-04T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56843"},"modified":"2014-12-04T06:39:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:39:45","slug":"purple-hearts-for-fort-hood-shooting-victims-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56843","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Shooting Victims?  Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that could be the result if the latest Defense Authorization Act (DAA) passes and is signed.  <\/p>\n<p>Per the <em>Army Times<\/em>, 2015 DAA being considered by Congress<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . stipulates that Purple Heart medals will be awarded to &#8220;members of the armed forces killed or wounded in domestic attacks inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Army Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/capitol-hill\/2014\/12\/03\/purple-heart-expansion\/19834457\/\">article has more details<\/a>.  IMO, it&#8217;s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>IIMO it&#8217;s <em>way<\/em> past freaking time for this to have happened.  Better late than never, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that could be the result if the latest Defense Authorization Act (DAA) passes and is signed. Per the Army Times, 2015 DAA being considered by Congress . . . stipulates that Purple Heart medals will be awarded to &#8220;members of the armed forces killed or wounded in domestic attacks inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eMP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}