{"id":14354,"date":"2014-06-06T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=14354"},"modified":"2014-06-06T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:28:38","slug":"1944-d-day-70-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/06\/06\/1944-d-day-70-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"1944: D-Day, 70 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll all be reminded through the day and weekend over the massive landing\/invasion\/retaking of France. It is tragic to think about all the lives lost so suddenly on both sides thanks to stubborn and\/or insane governments at the helm. What&#8217;s more frustrating is that the lessons learned from\u00a0<em>the last good war\u00a0<\/em>have been ignored by the newer generations of chicken hawks (aka, pro-war Republicans mostly) who ratchet up their\u00a0rhetoric and send our forces into needless conflicts. Then they turn around to point the finger at others for being cowards (Clinton had a high lottery number to avoid the draft), traitors (the Right Wing Noise Machine&#8217;s constant bitching over the recent prisoner exchange) or saboteurs (there are\u00a0no confirmed nor proven incidents of Vietnam Vets being spit on by the peace movement, it&#8217;s an old myth). Nevermind the chicken hawks&#8217; records on cowardice (W got bumped up in queue for a spot\u00a0in the Texas Air Guard), betrayal (Reagan traded weapons to Iran for the release of hostages) nor sabotage (the Right often claimed Vietnam was lost\u00a0because our soldiers didn&#8217;t try hard enough). In\u00a0defense of Republicans\/Conservatives who did fight in WWII, from their behaviors, I think they knew the horrors and expressed more\u00a0caution than the phonies in the party; Jimmy Stewart flew a bomber and refused to make any WWII movies when he returned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, I want to thank all the Allied forces who gave their lives. Often this event\u00a0tends to be very American-centric and overlooks that three of the five beaches were taken by the UK, Canada and the free forces from the occupied nations (Poland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands). I&#8217;m certain there were volunteers who originated from the neutral or opposing countries too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll all be reminded through the day and weekend over the massive landing\/invasion\/retaking of France. It is tragic to think about all the lives lost so suddenly on both sides thanks to stubborn and\/or insane governments at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/06\/06\/1944-d-day-70-years-later\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-14354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14355,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14354\/revisions\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}