{"id":111066,"date":"2017-11-30T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:06:26","slug":"a-nation-remembers-their-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/30\/a-nation-remembers-their-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Remembers Their Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SDrCUWfLqRI\/AAAAAAAAASE\/3fh_XI2NPcQ\/s1600-h\/flags-in-memorial-day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204685974269569298\" src=\"https:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SDrCUWfLqRI\/AAAAAAAAASE\/3fh_XI2NPcQ\/s400\/flags-in-memorial-day.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Today  is the day that we remember the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen  military personnel who died while serving our country in defense of our  freedom.   Unfortunately, the true meaning and history of this day have  become obscured as many of us treat it  as the beginning of summer, to  be celebrated with picnics, barbecues, boating and drinking.   <\/div>\n<div>While  we all have our own opinions about war and the military in general  (especially these days), we all need to be grateful to those who gave  their lives for us.   Lincoln said it best in his closing remarks of the  Gettysburg Address: &#8230;that from these honored  dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the  last full measure of devotion\u2014that we here highly resolve that these  dead shall not have died in vain\u2014that this nation, under God, shall have  a new birth of freedom\u2014and that government of the people, by the  people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day that we remember the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen military personnel who died while serving our country in defense of our freedom. Unfortunately, the true meaning and history of this day have become obscured as many of us treat it as the beginning of summer, to be celebrated with picnics, barbecues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}