{"id":97,"date":"2008-11-10T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raymondwhiteside.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-11-10T08:53:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T13:53:03","slug":"proud-to-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/11\/10\/proud-to-honor-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans honored today as it should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several in both my white family and my Indian family that have served in the military in all branches.\u00a0 I am very proud to honor each and every one of them on this day.\u00a0 Sunday my wife and I went to all of the graves that are local to us and put flowers and American flags on each of them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small gesture but a way to honor those that are no longer with us.<\/p>\n<p>Each and every one of us needs to thank a veteran today for the sacrifice they and their families have made to serve our country.\u00a0 Find a veteran, tell them &#8216;Thank You&#8217; and make sure they know how much you appreciate them and their family.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s an older veteran in your neighborhood, ask them if there&#8217;s something you can do for them on this day.\u00a0 Maybe they need some help with something or their yard raked.\u00a0 Whatever it is, give back to them for what they gave to us.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a suggestion of a way each of us can honor a Veteran.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter what you do, just make sure to honor those that are gone and still living because without them, we would not have the freedoms we have today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll sure be doing something for the WWII Veteran in my neighborhood.\u00a0 I do every year, all year long in fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several in both my white family and my Indian family that have served in the military in all branches.\u00a0 I am very proud to honor each and every one of them on this day.\u00a0 Sunday my wife and I went to all of the graves that are local to us and put &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/11\/10\/proud-to-honor-veterans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Veterans honored today as it should be&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-issues","category-holidays-celebrations","category-just-my-opinion","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}