{"id":166,"date":"2007-05-28T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T00:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-05-28T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T00:05:41","slug":"memorial-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Collier has <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110010133\">a very good article<\/a> over at OpinionJournal on the stories behind Memorial Day. I don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Medal-Honor-Portraits-Valor-Beyond\/dp\/1579652409\">his book<\/a> on Medal of Honor awardees; I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Medal-Honor-Profiles-Americas-Military\/dp\/0786885769\/ref=pd_sim_b_3\/105-7949961-2626800\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t finished it yet. It&#8217;s the sort of thing I can only read a little at a time. I just find it a little too intense to read more than a few stories at a time. I remember getting choked up when I&#8217;d read the citations on the dioramas around the periphery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpblecksmith.org\/DOWNLOADS\/memorial.htm\">Memorial Hall<\/a>, portraying the actions for which several Medals of Honor were awarded. As I&#8217;ve told people before, I&#8217;m just a sucker for stories of duty, honor, and sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Collier has a very good article over at OpinionJournal on the stories behind Memorial Day. I don&#8217;t have his book on Medal of Honor awardees; I have this one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}