{"id":3508,"date":"2009-11-11T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2009-11-11T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:48:33","slug":"veterans-day-2009-god-bless-our-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/veterans-day-2009-god-bless-our-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2009 &#8211; God Bless Our Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eBLT52uLZU0\/SRnFh4EJeAI\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/Yaxa9s10kIo\/s400\/VeteransDay.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eBLT52uLZU0\/SRnFh4EJeAI\/AAAAAAAAAAk\/Yaxa9s10kIo\/s400\/VeteransDay.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/>May God bless and protect all our Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is not free! It is due to the veterans&#8217; sacrifices and constant vigilance that we still have all our freedoms and liberties.<\/p>\n<p>To every man and woman who preserved my liberty this year, and for all of you who have ever proudly worn our Nation&#8217;s uniform, I say, &#8220;<em>Thank you!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You seek neither glory nor riches, nor even fame.\u00a0 You are our best, our brightest, our bravest.\u00a0 Please always know that even when we don&#8217;t show it, we love you.\u00a0 We appreciate you.\u00a0 We thank you.\u00a0 And we will never forget you or forsake you.<\/p>\n<p>Fly your U.S. flag today and thank a veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May God bless and protect all our Veterans. Freedom is not free! It is due to the veterans&#8217; sacrifices and constant vigilance that we still have all our freedoms and liberties. To every man and woman who preserved my liberty this year, and for all of you who have ever proudly worn our Nation&#8217;s uniform, &#8230; <a title=\"Veterans Day 2009 &#8211; God Bless Our Military\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/veterans-day-2009-god-bless-our-military\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Veterans Day 2009 &#8211; God Bless Our Military\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}