{"id":177837,"date":"2019-05-27T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/27\/a-thought-for-memorial-day\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T23:48:00","slug":"a-thought-for-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/27\/a-thought-for-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought for Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Major (Ret) Danny Sjursen observes what should be obvious, that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/yes-my-fellow-soldiers-died-in-vain\/\">Yes, My Fellow Soldiers Died in Vain<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amid the hagiography of the troops, and the non stop commercials for the holiday, we need to acknowledge, as James Tiberius Kirk does, &#8220;The illogic of waste \u2026\u2026\u2026 the waste of lives, potential, resources, time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t allow people who will never face jeopardy themselves to use the deaths of those who did to prosecute their psychopathic agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Major (Ret) Danny Sjursen observes what should be obvious, that &#8220;Yes, My Fellow Soldiers Died in Vain.&#8221; Amid the hagiography of the troops, and the non stop commercials for the holiday, we need to acknowledge, as James Tiberius Kirk does, &#8220;The illogic of waste \u2026\u2026\u2026 the waste of lives, potential, resources, time.&#8221; Don&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[379,374],"class_list":["post-177837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-military","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}