{"id":73815,"date":"2017-08-05T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73815"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T00:22:38","slug":"senate-approves-global-war-on-terrorism-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73815","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves Global War on Terrorism memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/senate-approves-global-war-on-terrorism-memorial-in-dc-1.481517#.WYUNX-mQyUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Senate unanimously approved the construction of a memorial to the Global War on Terrorism for some stupid reason. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to building a sacred place of healing and remembrance for our GWOT veterans, a place for families to gather to honor their loved ones and for future generations of Americans to learn about a war they will likely grow up alongside of,\u201d said Andrew J. Brennan, the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation founder and executive director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, it seems to me that the Senate would do well to fight the war against terror in the same way, but, you know there was no political upside to voting against the memorial.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The bill will go to the White House, where Brennan said staff have assured him it has President Donald Trump\u2019s support. After that, the project will go through a detailed 24-step bureaucratic process that will include choosing a site, selecting a design through competition and constructing the memorial. The foundation is eyeing a site north of the Lincoln Memorial \u2013 at the northwest end of the National Mall area \u2013 where there is some open land, though it currently contains a mess of snaking roadways.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial will include six themes: endurance, sacrifice, all-volunteer, global, multicultural and unfinished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be easy to memorialize a war that hasn&#8217;t ended yet. I remember it like it was yesterday. In fact, my son is deploying in the Fall to the war against terror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Senate unanimously approved the construction of a memorial to the &hellip; <a title=\"Senate approves Global War on Terrorism memorial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73815\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate approves Global War on Terrorism memorial<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73815","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=73815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}