{"id":26541,"date":"2015-09-19T21:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26541"},"modified":"2015-09-19T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:39:28","slug":"every-day-we-lose-twenty-two-veterans-to-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26541","title":{"rendered":"Every Day We Lose Twenty-two Veterans To Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day twenty-two American war<\/a> veterans commit suicide<\/a>. At present, this number is not being well serviced by the Veteran’s Administration<\/a>–they seem to be overwhelmed by the volume of servicemen who need help.<\/p>\n

Someone has stepped forward to help save our veterans. The Marine Times<\/a> posted the story in July.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Medically retired Marine Capt.\u00a0Danny Maher<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0who more commonly goes by his stage\u00a0name\u00a0<\/strong>Capt.\u00a0Donny O\u2019Malley \u2014\u00a0is\u00a0combining some of the things Marines<\/a> love most in his effort to bring awareness to a serious issue: humor and very short shorts known as silkies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former infantry officer-turned-comedian is leading\u00a0participants on a 22-kilometer road march on Saturday\u00a0while they each carry 22 kilograms \u2014 nearly 50 pounds\u00a0\u2014\u00a0of gear. The number of kilometers they’ll walk and the weight that they’ll carry\u00a0represents the 22 service members who die from suicide each day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maher and other participants will\u00a0walk in little more than silkies and boots while carrying their\u00a0packs. They’ll start at\u00a0South\u00a0Mission Beach Jetty in San Diego and will head about 13 and a half miles north\u00a0to La Jolla Cove<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cImagine a pub crawl with all your Marine buddies wearing nothing but silkies and rucks on the most crowded and beautiful boardwalk in California<\/a>. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on here,\u201d the\u00a0event\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The organization is called Irreverent Warriors<\/a>. Their website is here. I became aware of this organization during a family reunion in Myrtle Beach during a family reunion. I am thrilled that Captain Maher has started this program. Our returning veterans need to know that there is someone there to help them return to normal life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day twenty-two American war veterans commit suicide. At present, this number is not being well serviced by the Veteran’s Administration–they seem to be overwhelmed by the volume of servicemen who need help. Someone has stepped forward to help save … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9412,9411],"class_list":["post-26541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-danny-maher","tag-irreverent-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26543,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26541\/revisions\/26543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}