{"id":2003,"date":"2005-11-11T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2005-11-11T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T16:15:32","slug":"armistice-day-remembrance-day-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day &#8212; Remembrance Day &#8212; Veterans&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Patriot<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>On November 11, 1918, World War I finally ended. Of course it wasn&#8217;t called that at the time; it was called The Great War. How could anyone have known that it was to be the first of a series? Who could have guessed that barely twenty years would pass before the beginning of the next one?<\/p>\n<p>The day when peace finally arrived was given the name Armistice Day. Thereafter, it was commemorated every year with solemn ceremonies and sacred vows of &#8220;Never Again&#8221;. My, how things change.<\/p>\n<p>In many English-speaking countries, November 11th is now called Remembrance Day, and it&#8217;s still commemorated every year with solemn ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling extremely solemn myself. Disturbing and graphic content follows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/archives\/fallujah.jpg\" width=400> \n<\/p>\n<p>Please read Chris Floyd&#8217;s most recent piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chris-floyd.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=274&#038;Itemid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Fallujah:The Flame of Atrocity<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/archives\/burned_child.jpg\" width=400> \n<\/p>\n<p>Please also read Gandhi&#8217;s most recent, and apparently his last: <a href=\"http:\/\/bushout.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/no-more-words.html\" target=\"_blank\">No More Words<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Winter Patriot On November 11, 1918, World War I finally ended. Of course it wasn&#8217;t called that at the time; it was called The Great War. How could anyone have known that it was to be the first of a series? Who could have guessed that barely twenty years would pass before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}