{"id":743,"date":"2007-11-14T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-11-14T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:58:10","slug":"111107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"11\/11\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veterans Day…<\/strong> Some 25,000 people came to “The Wall” in D.C. to commemorate Vietnam, and Veterans Day in general, yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0Our campaign \u00a0went to southern Washington state several years ago to commemorate it. \u00a0 There we met with a Vietnam veteran who was a medic during the “Hamburger Hill” battle, the second bloodiest of that war’s history. \u00a0 For three solid days, this man ferried the injured off the hill and exhaustively tried to treat them the best he could. \u00a0 When the battle ended, he curled up in a fetal position under a tarp. \u00a0 He was flown back to the states with a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. \u00a0 When we met him, he’d been living in a small house boat on a slough off the Columbia River. \u00a0 He had an extreme case of agoraphobia and seldom left the house. \u00a0 He lived in a lonely, isolated world accompanied by numerous flashbacks to Vietnam… \u00a0 Our administration would push for as much quality help — \u00a0in-depth counseling, significant financial assistance, a myriad of other support — as possible for this man — and all who have fought. \u00a0 We owe them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veterans Day… Some 25,000 people came to “The Wall” in D.C. to commemorate Vietnam, and Veterans Day in general, yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0Our campaign \u00a0went to southern Washington state several years ago to commemorate it. \u00a0 There we met with a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}