{"id":12862,"date":"2014-05-26T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2014-05-26T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:01:31","slug":"remembering-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/remembering-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial Day\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Memorial Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Memorial-Day.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"575\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I won\u2019t wish you a happy Memorial Day.&#160; There\u2019s nothing at all happy about remembering mostly young men and women, who who have sacrificed their lives in the service of this nation.&#160; Honoring them is a solemn occasion.&#160; I add to their number two students from Jackson State, four students from Kent State, and others who were killed opposing war, whose deaths were covered-up.&#160; Their service is equally worthy of honor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although I have opposed the wars in my lifetime, I fully believe that while hating the war, we must cherish the warriors.&#160; Politicians, and we who elect them, are at fault for criminal wars, not the soldiers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While some Veterans groups try to use this holiday to focus our attention on them, but this is not their day.&#160; We have Veterans Day to honor their service, but let me close with a message for veterans this Memorial Day: Thank you for being good enough at your job that you came back, and in so doing, saved us the pain of honoring your loss.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won\u2019t wish you a happy Memorial Day.&#160; There\u2019s nothing at all happy about remembering mostly young men and women, who who have sacrificed their lives in the service of this nation.&#160; Honoring them is a solemn occasion.&#160; I add to their number two students from Jackson State, four students from Kent State, and others <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/remembering-the-fallen\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-holiday","category-politics","category-19-id","category-145-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}