{"id":124,"date":"2004-11-26T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-11-26T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-26T13:35:38","slug":"another-vet-must-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Another vet must serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this one is <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1895&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/nm\/20041124\/us_nm\/iraq_usa_old_dc\">a Vietnam vet who&#8217;s 53<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Paul Dunlap, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, will join an armored division next month as a telecommunications specialist in Kuwait, and expects to be there for at least a year, the newspaper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Dunlap, who has not been in combat since serving as a 19-year-old Marine in Vietnam, could not be reached for comment. He will leave behind his wife Mary, four children and three grandchildren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of them want me to go,&#8221; Dunlap told the paper. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s a long time since I&#8217;ve been in war.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, not surprising when you realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000727180\">we&#8217;ve actually lost 9% of our forces<\/a> to death or injury. This is a much higher figure than has previously been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this one is a Vietnam vet who&#8217;s 53. Paul Dunlap, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, will join an armored division next month as a telecommunications specialist in Kuwait, and expects to be there for at least a year, the newspaper reported. Dunlap, who has not been in combat since serving as a 19-year-old Marine in Vietnam, could not be reached for comment. He will leave behind his wife Mary, four children and three grandchildren. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of them want me to go,&#8221; Dunlap told the paper. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s a long time since I&#8217;ve been <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=124\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}