{"id":1397,"date":"2004-10-15T11:18:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/taking-care-of-vets\/"},"modified":"2004-10-15T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T18:18:56","slug":"taking-care-of-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/taking-care-of-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Care of Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Primetime\/IraqCoverage\/story?id=163109&amp;page=1\">ABC News: Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty<\/a> By BRIAN ROSS, DAVID SCOTT and MADDY SAUER, ABC News<\/p>\n<p>Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service.<\/p>\n<p>Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III of Mobile, Ala., who lost a kidney in a mortar attack last year in Iraq, was still recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he received notice from the Pentagon&#8217;s own collection agency that he owed more than $2,700 because he could not fulfill his full 36-month tour of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the Pentagon listed the bonus on his credit report as an unpaid government loan, making it impossible for him to rent an apartment or obtain credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh man, I felt betrayed,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I felt, like, oh, my heart dropped.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the severely wounded soldiers returning from Iraq face the prospect of poverty and what they describe as <b>official indifference and incompetence<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty By BRIAN ROSS, DAVID SCOTT and MADDY SAUER, ABC News Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service. Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/taking-care-of-vets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking Care of Vets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}