{"id":2499,"date":"2021-11-17T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2021-11-17T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:41:43","slug":"remember-patriot-michael-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2021\/11\/17\/remember-patriot-michael-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Patriot Michael New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael New was a soldier who dared to stand up for US sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>by Gilbert A. Lewthwaite<br \/>\nTHE BALTIMORE SUN<br \/>\nOctober 13, 1995 | Washington<\/p>\n<p><em>WASHINGTON &#8212; A U.S. soldier faces punishment as early as today for refusing to wear the blue patch and cap of a United Nations peacekeeper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Spc. Michael New is the first U.S. soldier to refuse to wear the U.N. insignia, according to Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Harkey. How the Army handles his case will set a precedent for dealing with breaches of an increasingly controversial and frequent part of military service &#8212; assignment to the United Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His defiance touches a sensitive national political nerve as conservative opposition to U.S. troops serving under foreign &#8212; .. and particularly U.N. &#8212; command grows on Capitol Hill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-1995-10-13-1995286005-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Model U.S. soldier refuses U.N. duty Medic says he joined to serve America, not a &#8216;foreign power&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael New was a soldier who dared to stand up for US sovereignty. by Gilbert A. Lewthwaite THE BALTIMORE SUN October 13, 1995 | Washington WASHINGTON &#8212; A U.S. soldier faces punishment as early as today for refusing to wear the blue patch and cap of a United Nations peacekeeper. Spc. Michael New is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}