{"id":6215,"date":"2009-11-11T05:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T10:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2009-11-11T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:35:10","slug":"veterans-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6215","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email from a business associate yesterday that said a bunch of the things I was fumbling with trying to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I speak for myself. As a man that has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> served in our military I am painfully aware of the sacrifices made by so many, that I may live the most comfortable and safe life in human history. I believe this country was founded\u00a0by men with devine intervention\u00a0from our creator to do good in this world. So many have sacrificed more than I can imagine allowing me the blessings I enjoy <span id=\"lw_1257927736_0\">everyday of my life<\/span>. My heart aches for the loss of them, and the pain and anguish of others and their families. On this day I know I owe my life to so many that I can never begin to express my gratitude to, lt alone repay:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/47NW7nu9BnU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/47NW7nu9BnU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May GOD continue to bless the Unied States of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he said.\u00a0 Thanks, veterans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email from a business associate yesterday that said a bunch of the things I was fumbling with trying to say: I speak for myself. As a man that has not served in our military I am painfully aware of the sacrifices made by so many, that I may live the most comfortable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}