{"id":116529,"date":"2022-11-11T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116529"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:31:21","slug":"va-shane-whitecloud-what-veterans-day-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116529","title":{"rendered":"(VA) Shane Whitecloud&#8211;What Veterans Day means to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent back to Hawaii where I went to my chain of command to report the incident again. I was placed on restrictive duty for violating \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell.\u201d I was discharged from the Navy in 1995 with a General Under Honorable Conditions discharge.<\/p>\n<p>There weren\u2019t a lot of resources for Veterans back then and the ones I heard about I was leery of. I fell into homelessness, drugs, and eventually incarceration. I was lost and alone. I didn\u2019t want to be found. I attempted suicide twice before I turned 21. I used to tell people I\u2019d never live to see 30.<\/p>\n<p>I found that singing was my way of saving $40 on a shrink and I sang for touring rock bands for the next 20+ years. Something was still missing though. I never had that feeling of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/110882\/what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EV0p04P1eO\">https:\/\/t.co\/EV0p04P1eO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Hannon (@INDYaz22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INDYaz22\/status\/1591194726652596224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent back to Hawaii where I went to my chain of command to report the incident again. I was placed on restrictive duty for violating \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell.\u201d I was discharged from the Navy in 1995 with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116529\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,104,133,98,106,129,603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-military-armed-forces","category-psychology","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116532,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116529\/revisions\/116532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}