{"id":1825,"date":"2019-11-11T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:00:08","slug":"eleven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/eleven-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Veterans\u2019 Day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

101 years since the Western Front went quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n

I can vaguely recall my dad taking us driving around The Somme battlefield<\/a>. I would have been something like seven or eight years old, and the concept that a million people died there was just incomprehensible. <\/p>\n\n\n

As I’ve gotten older, I think I’ve come to recognize just what a disaster for Europe, and the entire world, World War I was.<\/p>\n\n\n

As I dressed for my appointment this morning, the local NBC affiliate had video of vintage planes dropping poppies over Dover<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

I worry that the history of it is lost on most Americans. OK, Boomer<\/a>, I get that you knew more people who fought in World War II. Bubuhbut Tom Brokaw said they’re the greatest generation!!1!<\/p>\n\n\n

Understood.<\/p>\n\n\n

That you didn’t learn, or teach, anything about WWI is completely on you.<\/p>\n\n\n

I do distinctly remember my great-grandmother telling the story of marrying my great-grandfather during the break between basic training and deployment. This was despite the company commander’s direction that they not go get married.<\/p>\n\n\n

So much of what’s happened in the world since, I think, can be traced to that war.<\/p>\n\n\n

As for the veterans, my father was career Army. My father-in-law was career Navy. Much of what I do, now, is in support of the Army and Marine Corps. Previously, I, personally, have supported the Navy and Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n

One of the cooler things I’ve happened across in the past few weeks is ABMC<\/a>. Yes, I saw a few of those as a kid. (And I’d really like to work for them if any recruiters come looking….)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veterans\u2019 Day 101 years since the Western Front went quiet. I can vaguely recall my dad taking us driving around The Somme battlefield. I would have been something like seven or eight years old, and the concept that a million people died there was just incomprehensible. As I’ve gotten older, I think I’ve come to […]<\/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":[26],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}