{"id":7866,"date":"2012-05-28T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:20:44","slug":"memorial-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/memorial-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day – 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Memorial<\/p>\n

You may ask why I, as one who opposes war almost by definition, would want to celebrate the day in which we honor those military service people, who have given their lives in service to America.  From my earliest days as an antiwar activist opposing the war in Vietnam, I have believed that it is as important to honor the warriors, as it is to oppose the wars.<\/font><\/p>\n

They took an oath to obey and honored it.  They had nothing to do with the decisions.  I have no doubt that, if those who died in our Revolutionary War, for example, can look at today\u2019s wars, they are shedding tears over the senseless waste of life, but honoring their comrades as they fall.<\/font><\/p>\n

A couple days ago, <\/font>Rachel Maddow covered Joe Biden going off script with gold star families.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Usually, when Joe Biden goes off script, I cringe. Not this time.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now, unlike Veterans day, Memorial Day is not intended as celebration of those who served and survived.  Nevertheless, to all veterans who read this, thank you for your service.  I thank God that you are not among those whom we honor today.<\/font><\/p>\n

Happy Memorial Day to all.  Please travel safely.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may ask why I, as one who opposes war almost by definition, would want to celebrate the day in which we honor those military service people, who have given their lives in service to America.  From my earliest days as an antiwar activist opposing the war in Vietnam, I have believed that it is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,145,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-holiday","category-personal","category-19-id","category-145-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","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=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}