{"id":1755,"date":"2013-05-27T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:43:25","slug":"i-took-my-own-advice-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"I took my own advice today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…and I visited Veterans Memorial Park in Spanish Springs.\u00a0 They had a very moving ceremony that honored not only the fallen soldiers of past and present wars, but also\u00a0all of the brave men and woman who\u00a0are fighting or are veterans of the wars.\u00a0 I disappoint myself sometimes because I take things forgranted, my daily life is so busy that I forget to be thankful for what I have, or to remember those loved ones lost in our wars.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a> As I stood there and listened to the speakers, my thoughts were filled with my nephew John, a helicopter pilot who was\u00a0shot down and died in Afganistan.\u00a0 He was buried in Arlington National Cemetary, and a flag will most likely be put on his grave today, but the guilt I felt that I had not thought of him\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\u00a0until standing and listening to the Star Spangled Banner being sung, or the bagpipes,\u00a0and the drums and 21 gun salute.\u00a0 I stood remembering he was the same age as my son, he was a twin, he was the more serious twin, and how they all ran in the fields and\u00a0 played at the Family Annual Picnic until they were ready to drop from either exhaustion or over extended\u00a0tummies.\u00a0 The twins parents were a little more disciplined when it came to making sure the twins ate only healthy food.\u00a0 No sugar for them.\u00a0 Their favorite uncle was Jim and whenever he was around, the two of them followed him where ever he went.\u00a0 They would not leave his side. They sat at his feet and on his lap, they put their little arms around his neck, and when I asked what the secret to his popularity was…he winked and said they always know I have candy in my pocket for them.\u00a0 Today there is not candy for John but a flag in his memory, and an Aunt that will never forget to observe his special holiday, and to remember\u00a0 how fortunate we all are to have had a father or son, mother or daughter, neice or nephew who gave their lives for us.\"OLYMPUS<\/a>\u00a0The crowd was quite large and I\u00a0was not able to get too close so I returned later to take a picture of the monument, which is surrounded by bricks dedicated to family members past and present,\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a>and as I was leaving there were Veterans making sure everything\u00a0was put back\u00a0in place, and\u00a0spending one more moment of their time for us, taking\u00a0care 0f our flag,<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…thank-you, thank-you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and I visited Veterans Memorial Park in Spanish Springs.\u00a0 They had a very moving ceremony that honored not only the fallen soldiers of past and present wars, but also\u00a0all of the brave men and woman who\u00a0are fighting or are veterans of the wars.\u00a0 I disappoint myself sometimes because I take things forgranted, my daily life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}