{"id":13304,"date":"2009-08-06T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2009-08-06T06:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:59:34","slug":"kansas-wwii-vets-visit-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13304","title":{"rendered":"Kansas WWII vets visit DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/05\/AR2009080503714.html?hpid=artslot\">Washington Post<\/a> has a great story this morning about a community in Kansas that made it possible for some of their aging veterans to see the memorials in DC that were erected to honor their service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;13 of Brown County&#8217;s 22 surviving veterans who were able to make the trip. Some walked, and others had to be wheeled to the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington County on Tuesday night. All received applause from tourists and salutes from Marines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had goose bumps on my arms and tears in my eyes,&#8221; said Forrest Jones of Sabetha, Kan., who served in the Marines and Army and fought in World War II and the Korean War. He wore a hat that said &#8220;Served with Pride,&#8221; but he was humble when tourists approached him and shook his hand to thank him for his service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t do anything,&#8221; said Jones, 86. &#8220;I was just being a good citizen and trying to save our country.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a great story this morning about a community in Kansas that made &hellip; <a title=\"Kansas WWII vets visit DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13304\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kansas WWII vets visit DC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}