{"id":1469,"date":"2013-10-09T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2013-10-11T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T00:04:07","slug":"not-paying-the-families-of-our-dead-heroes-a-national-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/not-paying-the-families-of-our-dead-heroes-a-national-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Paying the Families of our Dead Heroes a National Disgrace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=16311\">Statement by George Little on Death Gratuity Payments<\/a> &#8211; <i>DoD<\/i> &#8211; 11 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/10\/senate-approves-bill-to-pay-military-death-benefits\/\">Obama signs bill to pay death benefits to families of fallen soldiers<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; <i>FoxNews<\/i> &#8211; 10 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131010\/NEWS05\/310100016\">Congress votes to restore death gratuities<\/a> &#8211; <i>ArmyTimes<\/i> &#8211; 10 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=16303\">Statement by Secretary Hagel on Death Gratuities<\/a> &#8211; <i>DoD<\/i> &#8211; 9 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=adf1a83154acea60d091b413c&amp;id=b015bbbec6&amp;e=708a27d99c\">Shame on You President Obama<\/a> &#8211; <i>Thomas More Law Center<\/i> &#8211; Posted 9 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Our fax to Speaker Boehner: <a href=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/Not-paying-the-families-of-our-dead-heroes-a-national-disgrace-Boehner.pdf\">Not paying the families of our dead heroes a national disgrace!<\/a> &#8211; 9 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/10\/08\/20871220-just-disgusting\">Military foundation steps up to cover &#8216;disgusting&#8217; delay in payments for families of fallen<\/a> &#8211; <i>NBC News<\/i> &#8211; 8 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131008\/BENEFITS\/310080023\/Shutdown-halts-death-benefits-military-families\">Shutdown halts death benefits for military families<\/a> &#8211; <i>ArmyTimes<\/i> &#8211; 8 Oct 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Newsletter comment<\/span>: According to Col. Oliver North, the president could have corrected this matter by simply signing an emergency appropriations bill. &#8211; <i>Roger &amp; Pam<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Statement by George Little on Death Gratuity Payments &#8211; DoD &#8211; 11 Oct 13 UPDATE: Obama signs bill to pay death benefits to families of fallen soldiers\u00a0 &#8211; FoxNews &#8211; 10 Oct 13 UPDATE: Congress votes to restore death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/not-paying-the-families-of-our-dead-heroes-a-national-disgrace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}