{"id":186302,"date":"2021-05-31T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=186566"},"modified":"2021-05-31T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:40:05","slug":"veterans-for-peace-statement-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/31\/veterans-for-peace-statement-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans For Peace Statement On Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are tired of parades, memorials and pageantry.<\/p>\n<p>Take back your\u00a0 \u201cthank you for your service\u201d and 50% off sales.<\/p>\n<p>We want people to live without threats of U.S. bullets and bombs.<\/p>\n<p>We remember the enormous loss of civilian life that is forgotten in today\u2019s memorials and hidden from view in the U.S. consciousness. America has no space on its calendar to memorialize\u00a0these\u00a0victims.<\/p>\n<p>We grieve the loss of friends and the death of veterans unable to forget the tragedies and forgive themselves.<\/p>\n<p>We are ANGRY that there is a holiday that glorifies nationalism and patriotism and ignores the trauma that U.S. militarism enacts all over the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/veterans-for-peace-statement-on-memorial-day\/\">Veterans For Peace Statement On Memorial Day<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/veterans-for-peace-statement-on-memorial-day\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are tired of parades, memorials and pageantry.<br \/>\nTake back your\u00a0 \u201cthank you for your service\u201d and 50% off sales.<br \/>\nWe want people to live without threats of U.S. bullets and bombs.<br \/>\nWe remember the enormous loss of civilian life that is forgotten in toda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,26855,4994,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186303,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186302\/revisions\/186303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}