{"id":2397,"date":"2013-05-27T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2013-05-27T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:13:11","slug":"musings-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/musings-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9b\/US_Flag_Backlit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2398\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/musings-on-memorial-day\/us_flag_backlit\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4491,3361\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Photographer: Joshua Nathanson&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1236869758&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright: 2009 Joshua Nathanson&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"US_Flag_Backlit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit-1024x766.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2398\" alt=\"US_Flag_Backlit\" src=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/US_Flag_Backlit-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As far as I know, none of my relatives have sacrificed their lives while serving our country. But it&#8217;s possible. I come from a long line of soldiers. In fact, I found a man with my father&#8217;s (and grandfather&#8217;s) <em>exact name<\/em> in the Revolutionary War rolls of 1780. (I have not yet connected the dots, but chances are, we&#8217;re related.)<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day itself was created to commemorate the men and women who have died while serving our country. I don&#8217;t know how many have died, but every single person we&#8217;ve lost is one too many. But most of them did it willingly. They gave up their lives to protect our rights &#8211; our freedom of speech, our freedom of religion, our country and our homes.<\/p>\n<p>Let us make sure their ultimate sacrifice was not in vain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n(Photo of flag from <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:US_Flag_Backlit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I know, none of my relatives have sacrificed their lives while serving our country. But it&#8217;s possible. I come from a long line of soldiers. In fact, I found a man with my father&#8217;s (and grandfather&#8217;s) exact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/musings-on-memorial-day\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22,67,12,70,8,90,86,83,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-family","category-giving-to-others","category-hard-work","category-hell","category-history","category-inspiration","category-making-a-difference","category-shining-a-light","category-the-dark-places"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Musings on Memorial Day - dSavannahRambles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/musings-on-memorial-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musings on Memorial Day - dSavannahRambles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As far as I know, none of my relatives have sacrificed their lives while serving our country. 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