{"id":1089,"date":"2005-11-11T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1089"},"modified":"2005-11-11T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T18:11:11","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1089","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month<\/p>\n

“It is well that war is so terrible; else we would grow too fond of it”
\n — Robert E. Lee<\/p>\n

“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”
\n — George William Curtis<\/p>\n

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
\n — John Philpot Curran Speech upon the Right of Election (1790)<\/p>\n

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
\n — Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Day Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n

The Origins of Veterans Day<\/a> from the VFW<\/p>\n

The Great War<\/a><\/p>\n

WWII Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Korean War Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Vietnam War Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital Memorial for those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n

Data on Veterans from the US Census Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month “It is well that war is so terrible; else we would grow too fond of it” — Robert E. Lee “A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}