{"id":23,"date":"2002-05-27T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2002-05-27T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2002-05-27T10:13:06","slug":"memorial_day_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/memorial_day_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one got to me to..<strike>if anyone knows of who wrote it please let me know so I can give proper credit where it is due.<\/strike><br \/>\nThank you <a href=\"http:\/\/gammerstang.com\">cal<\/a> for helping me know who to give credit to *s*<br \/>\nI watched the flag pass by one day.<br \/>\nIt fluttered in the breeze.<br \/>\nA young Marine saluted it,<br \/>\nand then he stood at ease.<br \/>\nI looked at him in uniform<br \/>\nso young, so tall, so proud,<br \/>\nWith hair cut square and eyes alert<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d stand out in any crowd.<br \/>\nI thought how many men like him<br \/>\nHad fallen through the years<br \/>\nHow many died on foreign soil?<br \/>\nHow many mothers&#8217; tears?<br \/>\nHow many pilots&#8217; planes shot down?<br \/>\nHow many died at sea?<br \/>\nHow many foxholes were soldiers&#8217; graves?<br \/>\nNo, freedom isn&#8217;t free.<br \/>\nI heard the sound of taps one night,<br \/>\nWhen everything was still<br \/>\nI listened to the bugler play<br \/>\nAnd felt a sudden chill.<br \/>\nI wondered just how many times<br \/>\nThat taps had meant &#8220;Amen,&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen a flag had draped a coffin<br \/>\nOf a brother or a friend.<br \/>\nI thought of all the children,<br \/>\nOf the mothers and the wives,<br \/>\nOf the fathers, sons and husbands<br \/>\nWith interrupted lives.<br \/>\nI thought about a graveyard<br \/>\nAt the bottom of the sea<br \/>\nOf unmarked graves in Arlington.<br \/>\nNo, freedom isn&#8217;t free.<br \/>\n<i>Copyright 1981 by Kelly Strong<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one got to me to..if anyone knows of who wrote it please let me know so I can give proper credit where it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}