I’ve said it in the past; I’ve always found the practice of thanking veterans for their service to be a little…off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing against those that do say it – but it’s always felt a little strange to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Thanks for taking a couple years out of your life<\/a>, in many cases going around the world and undergoing a lot of unimaginable stress, danger and horror<\/a>. Thanks so much!”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So for my part – to all you veterans out there: I’m glad you made it home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s make this nation worth your time, and the sacrifice of those who didn’t come back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve said it in the past; I’ve always found the practice of thanking veterans for their service to be a little…off. Nothing against those that do say it – but it’s always felt a little strange to me. “Thanks for taking a couple years out of your life, in many cases going around the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,25,131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-history-and-its-making","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995","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=79995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79997,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions\/79997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}