{"id":51480,"date":"2022-05-04T02:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51480"},"modified":"2022-05-04T02:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:19:17","slug":"stand-tall-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51480","title":{"rendered":"Stand tall, Marine!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Forgive me for picking a nit or two regarding the media’s coverage of the release of a Texan from a Russian prison.<\/p>\n

Trevor Reed is now home with his family. I wish him all the very best. I thank President Biden and his team for negotiating Reed’s release. But … I have a question that just keeps nibbling at me.<\/p>\n

Why are the media continuing to refer to Reed as a “former Marine”?\u00a0 It seems that every news article I read about Reed has a lede that goes, “Former Marine Trevor Reed is home today.” Or, “Former Marine Trevor Reed was declared fit to see his family.” Or, “Former Marine Trevor Reed hugged his parents.”<\/p>\n

What does his status as an ex-Marine have to do with … well, anything?<\/p>\n

I am grateful for his service to the nation. But I need someone to explain what his Marine Corps veteran status has to do with his being arrested and imprisoned by the Russians.<\/p>\n

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Forgive me for picking a nit or two regarding the media’s coverage of the release of a Texan from a Russian prison. Trevor Reed is now home with his family. I wish him all the very best. I thank President Biden and his team for negotiating Reed’s release. But … I have a question that … Continue reading Stand tall, Marine!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2901,9926],"class_list":["post-51480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-marine-corps","tag-trevor-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51481,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480\/revisions\/51481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}