{"id":1060,"date":"2005-11-11T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/veterans-day\/"},"modified":"2005-11-11T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T03:59:00","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is disgusting that President Bush used Veteran’s Day to defend his indefensible war<\/a>. Veteran’s Day is about honoring the sacrifices of service men and women and their families. Having been raised in a military family with a father on active duty for all of my formative years, I actually take the message and meaning of the day seriously. I believe it is a good time to think about how we can be a better country to the veterans that have served and represented us. So it made me ill that the administration used the day to divert attention away from veterans and the needs of the thousands of veterans their war is now making. Good plan, considering the administration is systematically wildling <\/span>away at the benefits and rights of veterans. Cuts to health and disability<\/a> benefits, lies to active duty to extend time<\/a> in service, inadequate protection<\/a> for current service men and women, broken promises on education benefits<\/a>… these are just the start. After all, if you give your life in this misguided war, the Feds may even deface your tombstone<\/a>. Those are the issues that should have been on the table during this Veteran’s Day. Not using the day to trump up “support” for the President’s War. And *certainly* not to remove the 55-year <\/a>tradition of allowing veteran’s groups<\/a> to have the opportunity to make legislative recommendations at joint House-Senate hearings.<\/p>\n

What a slap in the face of all veterans, their families, and supporters. Something to think about next time we’re starting at one of those “support our troops” car stickers.
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It is disgusting that President Bush used Veteran’s Day to defend his indefensible war. Veteran’s Day is about honoring the sacrifices of service men and women and their families. Having been raised in a military family with a father on active duty for all of my formative years, I actually take the message and meaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}