{"id":9477,"date":"2015-11-12T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:17:08","slug":"21st-century-crusaders-americans-who-volunteer-to-fight-isis-with-the-peshmerga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/12\/21st-century-crusaders-americans-who-volunteer-to-fight-isis-with-the-peshmerga\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Crusaders: Americans who Volunteer to Fight ISIS with the Peshmerga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong> \u201cOne ought never to turn one\u2019s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.\u201d -Winston Churchill, 1940<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I first started reading about these brave men and women volunteers, most of them former Military with families, I thought to myself: &#8220;My God, they have already <em>answered the call<\/em> from their country once, they have done their duty honorably, nothing else should be expected from them.&#8221; But afterwards, I realized that these men and women are responding to a call that has a much higher and deeper significance: <strong>THE CALL OF\u00a0CONSCIENCE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oYXrMV3XN1o\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/oYXrMV3XN1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne ought never to turn one\u2019s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.\u201d -Winston Churchill, 1940 When I first started reading about these brave men&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,1704,2574,74,2086,1247,2413,2726,2933,1286,1860,2470,272,1898],"tags":[2949,2950,1083,2951],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}