{"id":12355,"date":"2019-11-11T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:52:28","slug":"veterans-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12355","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-147431441-1\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());\n\n  gtag('config', 'UA-147431441-1');\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Let me start off by thanking everyone who served in the military regardless of branch. Without your service, in both peacetime and war, we wouldn&#8217;t have the freedoms that we have today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking about my Dad this morning. He served 28 years of active duty in the Army and was medically retired in 1972. He was 53 and was suffering from a wide range of health conditions probably brought on by his military service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PTR-Headstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PTR-Headstone.jpg 480w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PTR-Headstone-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My Dad died at age 62 and 10 days. He was actually born on April 3rd and not April 13th like it says on the grave marker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 5th, I officially outlived him. Unlike him, I never smoked, I never was in a war zone, and I was never exposed to Agent Orange. With the exception of not smoking, I wasn&#8217;t exposed to the things he was thanks to his service and that of millions of more men and women just like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on this Veterans Day, remember and thank those family members and friends who did serve. Thank them for the lives we live thanks to their hard work and sacrifices.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start off by thanking everyone who served in the military regardless of branch. Without your service, in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,616],"class_list":["post-12355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}