{"id":106,"date":"2003-06-06T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:43","slug":"dday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t put anything up today to commemorate D-Day, because I assumed one of the others would; I&#8217;m sure the entire team did the same thing. So I&#8217;ll jump in.<\/p>\n<p><i>Today, the Allied nations took a risk that changed the world.<\/i> They faced a frightening world that promised struggle, loss, and death to all of Europe and Asia. They took that bleak promise, conquered it, and created the most free and prosperous era in human history.<\/p>\n<p>One of the discoveries we&#8217;ve made in the last year or so is that our world is no less challenging; now we need to show that we, too, can rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting Veterans is one way; sadly the current Administration seems to see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2002\/11\/20\/national\/main530158.shtml\" target=\"browser\">differently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone ought to do something about that.<\/p>\n<p><b>JK UPDATES:<\/b> Correct diagnosis of what was going on. Glad A.L. stepped in. In addition:<\/p>\n<p><UL=DISC><LI>CPO Sparkey has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/weblog\/archives\/003433.php\">a post of his own about D-Day<\/a>, including Eisenhower&#8217;s pre-battle address to the troops.<\/p>\n<p><LI><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingwolf.net\/archives\/000156.html\">LaughingWolf has his own post<\/a>, also worth a read.<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Day. Lest we forget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}