{"id":274,"date":"2008-11-11T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-11-11T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:03:33","slug":"thank_you_veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, veterans.&nbsp; It is because of you that I am free to write this blog.&nbsp; It is because of you that people in America are free to protest any law, politician, or legal decision they disagree with.&nbsp; It is because of you that people in Iraq are no longer being sent through chicken shredders feet first.&nbsp; It is because of you that there are no longer rape rooms in Iraq.&nbsp; It is because of you that the Concentration Camps in Germany were liberated after World War II.&nbsp; It is because of you that England is a free country and France is a free country and Europe exists as many free nations.&nbsp; It is because of you that Japan is a free and prosperous country.&nbsp; It is because of you that South Korea is free and prosperous.&nbsp; Thank you for your sacrifice, your dedication, and your service.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush is honoring veterans at the USS Intrepid today according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081111\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/bush_veterans\">Yahoo News<\/a>.&nbsp; The Intrepid has just returned to New York City to be part of the USS Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum after having some repair work done.&nbsp; My husband served on the Intrepid during the late 1960&#8217;s.&nbsp; He was with one of the air wings stationed on the ship.&nbsp; It is a museum worth visiting.&nbsp; The ship is huge (although small by current standards) and quite imposing.&nbsp; Along with the Intrepid, the museum also features the destroyer <strong>USS<\/strong> Edson, submarine <strong>USS<\/strong> Growler and over 25 aircraft.&nbsp; I have been aboard the Intrepid and the Growler, but I have never been aboard a destroyer.&nbsp; I hope to get there in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, veterans.&nbsp; It is because of you that I am free to write this blog.&nbsp; It is because of you that people in America are free to protest any law, politician, or legal decision they disagree with.&nbsp; It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}