{"id":4288,"date":"2013-11-11T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2013-11-11T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:49:08","slug":"saluting-veterans-with-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2013\/11\/saluting-veterans-with-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Saluting Veterans with Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

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95 years ago, the “War to End All Wars” came to a conclusion when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, France on November 11, 1918.\u00a0 World War I was a terrible war, with massive casualties and debilitating lifelong wounds for the veterans who survived.\u00a0 Sadly, Armistice Day was not the end of war at all, and soon the world plunged into World War II, later Korea, then Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and countless bloody conflicts in between.<\/p>\n

In the last decade, more than 2.5 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 More than 6,000 have died, and tens of thousands more have returned with debilitating injuries.\u00a0 The toll of war continues unabated.<\/p>\n

My father was a WWII veteran, serving in the Pacific theater.\u00a0 Like so many men of his generation, he did his duty and came home without much follow-up.\u00a0 He spoke little about his war experience.\u00a0 He was a proud veteran but mostly he wanted to make sure his family could enjoy lifelong peace and prosperity.\u00a0\u00a0 Veterans across the generations share this same goal, to ensure peace for millions, to protect freedom and to make sure that future generations can prosper.<\/p>\n

We’re still working on the idea of peace in the global community.\u00a0 But on this Veterans Day, let’s remember all those who have served and given so much to ensure our freedom and prosperity at home.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favorite Veteran?\u00a0 Family member or Friend?\u00a0 Share your thoughts by clicking on the Comments link below….<\/p>\n

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On this Veterans Day, let’s remember all veterans across the generations with thanks and gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[1080,1300,832],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebration","category-war-and-peace","tag-veterans-day","tag-war-in-afghanistan","tag-war-in-iraq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}