{"id":69083,"date":"2016-11-22T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69083"},"modified":"2016-11-22T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:58:06","slug":"earnest-henry-walker-goes-to-chilis-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69083","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Henry Walker goes to Chili’s on Veterans’ Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Earnest<\/a><\/p>\n

You probably remember the story of the Chili’s manager who took away the free Veterans’ Day meal from a guy he thought was pretending to be a veteran, Ernest Henry Walker<\/a>. We’ve withheld comment until we could verify Walker’s service – it turns out that he is a veteran with more than two years of service with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, 1986 – 1988.<\/p>\n

\"Ernest<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ernest<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I thought it was a dick move from the manager to take the meal away from him anyway – maybe he could have charged the man for the meal if he had real doubts about his service. From KTLA<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Army veteran, who was with his service dog and wearing fatigues, wrote that the meal was taken away after another diner questioned the uniform Walker was wearing.<\/p>\n

The restaurant manager approached Walker and said a customer had said Walker was \u201cnot a real soldier because he had his hat on indoors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker showed the manager his military identification and discharge papers, but the meal was still taken away.<\/p>\n

Walker said he bought the fatigues he was wearing after he was discharged as a tribute to his service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There were a couple of assholes in that restaurant that day and neither were Walker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably remember the story of the Chili’s manager who took away the free Veterans’ Day meal from a guy he thought was pretending to be a veteran, Ernest Henry Walker. We’ve withheld comment until we could verify Walker’s service – it turns out that he is a veteran with more than two years of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Earnest-Henry-Walker.jpg?fit=929%2C487&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hYf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69083","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}